Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit
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
Citation Formats
National Renewable Energy Laboratory. (2014). Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit [data set]. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1822195.
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
Details
Data from Sep 26, 2014
Last updated Sep 22, 2023
Submitted Sep 22, 2020
Organization
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Contact
Wind Toolkit Team
Authors
Research Areas
Keywords
energy, power, wind, meterology, WRF, numerical weather model, model, Weather Research and Forecasting Model, ERA-Interm, ERA Interm, wind data, data, code, python, API, Eastern Wind Integration Data Set, Western Wind Integration Data Set, weather, toolkitDOE Project Details
Project Name WIND Toolkit
Project Number 26877