The World of Wind Atlases – Wind Atlases of the World

Contents of the Wind Atlas for Egypt

The Atlas is divided into nine chapters, each intended for readers with different areas of interest – from laymen to professional meteorologists:

1    Introduction to the Wind Atlas

Contents of Introduction: Executive summary • Preface and acknowledgements • Wind atlas methodology • Mesoscale modelling.

2    The wind resources of Egypt

Contents of Chapter 2: General circulation • Previous investigations • The wind climate of Egypt.

3    Application of the atlas

Contents of Chapter 3: The wind-climatological inputs • The topographical inputs • Wind resource mapping • Wind farm calculations • Design wind conditions • Reliability of wind resource estimates.

4    Mesoscale modelling

Contents of Chapter 4: Model description • Topographic data • Initial meteorologcal data • Classification system • Post-processing • Modelling domains • Domain set-up and results: Western Egypt, Eastern Egypt, Northwest Coast, Western Desert, Gulf of Suez and Red Sea.

5    The Wind Atlas methodology

Contents of Chapter 5: The physical basis • The roughness change model • The shelter model • The orographic model • The statistical basis • The Wind Atlas analysis model • The Wind Atlas application model • Meteorological data and station descriptions.

6    Verification of the wind atlas methodology

Contents of Chapter 6: Station intercomparisons • KAMM- and WAsP-modelled regional wind climates.

7    Observed and regional wind climates

Contents of Chapter 7: The station description • Raw data summaries • The wind-climatological fingerprint • Regional climatology and mean values • Station statistics and climatologies: Northwest Coast, Northeast Coast, Gulf of Aqaba, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea, Western Desert.

8    Design wind conditions

Contents of Chapter 8: Extreme wind speeds • Gustiness of the wind • Turbulence characteristics.

9    References

Contents of Chapter 9: Publications • Web pages and ftp sites.

Appendices

Contents of Appendices: The meteorological stations • The meteorological database • Cup anemometer calibration facility • WAsP version and configuration.