2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23) ...

The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23) is the latest wind resource data set for offshore regions in the United States, which supersedes, for its offshore component, the Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit, which was published about a decade ago and is currently one of the pri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bodini, Nicola, Optis, Mike, Rossol, Michael, Rybchuk, Alex, Redfern, Stephanie, Lundquist, Julie K., Rosencrans, David
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: DOE Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI); National Renewable Energy Laboratory 2020
Subjects:
Array
energy
offshore
wind
code
resource
tool
toolkit
h5
United States
California
Pacific Northwest
Northwest
Pacific
Atlantic
Mid Atlantic
Great Lakes
Hawaii
power
processed data
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1821404
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1821404/
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Summary:The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23) is the latest wind resource data set for offshore regions in the United States, which supersedes, for its offshore component, the Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit, which was published about a decade ago and is currently one of the primary resources for stakeholders conducting wind resource assessments in the continental United States. The NOW-23 data set was produced using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) version 4.2.1. A regional approach was used: for each offshore region, the WRF setup was selected based on validation against available observations. The WRF model was initialized with the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts 5 Reanalysis (ERA-5) data set, using a 6-hour refresh rate. The model is configured with an initial horizontal grid spacing of 6 km and an internal nested domain that refined the spatial resolution to 2 km. The model is run with 61 vertical levels, with 12 levels in the lower 300m of the ...

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