CFSR data for air density calculations in WAsP
This is the CFSR dataset that can be used to calculate air density for wind energy purposes using the equations presented in https://doi.org/10.3390/en12112038. The NetCDF file contains mean fields of monthly means from 2001 to 2010 of the variable temperature, surface pressure and specific humidity. The horizontal grid resolution is 0.5 degrees and covers the whole globe. These fields were used in the WAsP software version up to version 12.5 to calculate the air density at specified heights above mean sea level. The WAsP software (www.wasp.dk) is the industry standard method to calculate the annual energy production of wind farms.
Saha, S., et al. 2010. NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) Monthly Products, January 1979 to December 2010. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D69K487J. Accessed 21 dec 2017.
Funding
This research was funded by the Danish EUDP project 64018-0095 GASP and from internal resources.
History
Location
GlobalDate
Start date: 2001-01-01 Stop date 2011-01-01Topic
- Siting;>Wind Mapping
- Siting;>Wind Atlases
- Siting;>Resource assessment
Models
- Meteorological;>GCM
- Flow;>Linearized
Activities
- Modeling
External conditions
- Location;>Offshore;>Nearshore
- Location;>Offshore;>Offshore
- Location;>Offshore;>Other
- Location;>Onshore;>Coastal
- Location;>Onshore;>Inland
- Location;>Other
- Location;>Onshore;>Other
Data category
- Meteorological data
