The World of Wind Atlases – Wind Atlases of the World |
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The World of Wind Atlases – Wind Atlases of the World |
The text of the Atlas has been translated into French, German, Italian, and Spanish. These translations contain the entire text of the Atlas as well as the statistical tables of the French, German, Italian, and Spanish stations, respectively. One non-English edition may be supplied free of charge with the English reference edition.
The Atlas is the meteorological basis for estimating the wind climate and wind energy resources of any particular site in the EC. The application of the Atlas as a siting handbook is explained in detail in the Atlas.
To facilitate resource calculations and specific siting of wind turbines, the Wind Atlas is furnished with a disk containing all the regional statistics. The disk files can be used directly with the "Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program" (WAsP), which was especially developed for the production of the Wind Atlas and for use in practical siting. The WAsP program is not included in the Atlas, but can be obtained from Risø DTU.
The observed and model-derived wind statistics from the 220 meteorological stations are furnished on a data disk together with the Atlas – for use with a PC or compatible computer. The data consists of the observed and regional wind rose and wind speed distributions for each station, see below.
Observed wind climate at Horns Rev Lightship in Denmark (> data file format).
Regional wind climate at Horns Rev Lightship in Denmark (> data file format).