U.S. Gulf of Mexico Coast Offshore Windspeed 90m Height High Resolution

Description

The data here provide an estimate of annual average wind speed at 90 meter height above surface for specific offshore regions of the United States. This dataset is a geographic shapefile generated from the original raster data. The original raster data resolution is a 200-meter cell size. To learn more about this project and methodologies, please see the "Assessment of Offshore Wind Energy Resources for the United States" link below. These data were produced in cooperation with U.S. Department of Energy, and have been validated by NREL. For updated gridded long-term average wind data please see the "Global Wind Atlas" resource below. For more information on NREL's wind resource data development, see the "Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit" and the "WIND Toolkit Long-Term Ensemble Dataset" resources.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 August, 2010 Offshore wind resource at 90m height in the Gulf of Mexico region https://data.openei.org/files/452/gulfofmexico90mwindspeedoffshorewindhighresolution.zip
33 NREL publication detailing the project https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy10osti/45889.pdf
21 The Global Wind Atlas is a free, web-based application developed to help policymakers, planners, and investors identify high-wind areas for wind power generation virtually anywhere in the world and then perform preliminary calculations. The Global Wind Atlas facilitates online queries and provides freely downloadable datasets based on the latest input data and modeling methodologies. https://globalwindatlas.info/en/
21 The WIND Toolkit, which was created through the collaborative efforts of NREL and 3TIER, includes instantaneous meteorological conditions from computer model output and calculated turbine power. https://data.openei.org/submissions/2
21 WIND Toolkit Long-term Ensemble Dataset (WTK-LED), an updated version of the meteorological WIND Toolkit, is a meteorological dataset providing high-resolution time series, including interannual variability and model uncertainty of wind speed at every modeling grid point to indicate ranges of possible wind speeds. https://data.openei.org/submissions/5987

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  • gulf-of-mexico
  • wind-data
  • offshore-wind
  • wind-resource
  • 90m
  • shapefile
  • wind
  • gis
  • renewable
  • windspeed
  • nrel
  • energy

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