The World of Wind Atlases – Wind Atlases of the World

Application of the Atlas

The Atlas is the meteorological basis for estimating the wind climate and wind energy resources of any particular site in Russia. 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.

Data disk

The main results of the analyses – the regionally representative wind statistics for each station – are furnished on this disk. The disk furthermore contains the wind speed data in the form of histograms and wind roses. The disk is divided into 25 folders, one for each meteorological district in Russia. Each folder contains *.lib- and *.tab-files for meteorological stations in the corresponding district, see below. In total, there are 332 stations.

Observed wind climate at Bugrino in Russia (> data file format).

Regional wind climate at Bugrino in Russia. (> data file format).