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Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit

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Wind resource data for North America was produced using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF). The WRF model was initialized with the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Interim Reanalysis (ERA-Interm) data set with an initial grid spacing of 54 km. Three internal nested domains were used to refine the spatial resolution to 18, 6, and finally 2 km. The WRF model was run for years 2007 to 2014. While outputs were extracted from WRF at 5 minute time-steps, due to storage limitations instantaneous hourly time-step are provided for all variables while full 5 min resolution data is provided for wind speed and wind direction only.

The following variables were extracted from the WRF model data:
- Wind Speed at 10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200 m
- Wind Direction at 10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200 m
- Temperature at 2, 10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200 m
- Pressure at 0, 100, 200 m
- Surface Precipitation Rate
- Surface Relative Humidity
- Inverse Monin Obukhov Length

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory. (2014). Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit [data set]. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1822195.
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Maclaurin, Galen, Draxl, Caroline, Hodge, Bri-Mathias, and Rossol, Michael. Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit. United States: N.p., 26 Sep, 2014. Web. doi: 10.25984/1822195.
Maclaurin, Galen, Draxl, Caroline, Hodge, Bri-Mathias, & Rossol, Michael. Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit. United States. https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1822195
Maclaurin, Galen, Draxl, Caroline, Hodge, Bri-Mathias, and Rossol, Michael. 2014. "Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit". United States. https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1822195. https://data.openei.org/submissions/2.
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The following variables were extracted from the WRF model data:
- Wind Speed at 10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200 m
- Wind Direction at 10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200 m
- Temperature at 2, 10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200 m
- Pressure at 0, 100, 200 m
- Surface Precipitation Rate
- Surface Relative Humidity
- Inverse Monin Obukhov Length}, doi = {10.25984/1822195}, url = {https://data.openei.org/submissions/2}, journal = {}, number = , volume = , place = {United States}, year = {2014}, month = {09}}
https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1822195

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Data from Sep 26, 2014

Last updated Mar 19, 2024

Submitted Sep 22, 2020

Organization

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Wind Toolkit Team

Authors

Galen Maclaurin

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Caroline Draxl

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Bri-Mathias Hodge

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Michael Rossol

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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DOE Project Details

Project Name WIND Toolkit

Project Number 26877

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