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

• 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/

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 ...