TY - JOUR
T1 - EOLMAP
T2 - A web tool to assess the wind resource over Spain
AU - Lorente-Plazas, R.
AU - Montávez, J. P.
AU - Jerez, S.
AU - Gómez-Navarro, J. J.
AU - Jiménez-Guerrero, P.
AU - Jiménez, P. A.
AU - García-Valero, J. A.
AU - Gomáriz-Castillo, F.
AU - Alonso-Sarría, F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2012, European Association for the Development of Renewable Energy, Environment and Power Quality (EA4EPQ). All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - A wind data base and a web tool have been developed to estimate the wind power over the Iberian Peninsula (IP). This tool also allows estimating the most appropriate Small Wind Turbine (SWT) for a given location. The wind database includes observational and simulated wind data. The simulated data consists on a 10 km hindcast, covering the period 1960-2007, generated with a Regional Climate Model (RCM) driven by ERA40. The observational data base has been built from hourly records encompassing the period 1999-2007 and includes more than 450 stations evenly distributed over Spain. A quality control has been applied to the data in order to assess the reliability of the observational data set. Although the web tool provides information which allows the users to estimate the reliability of the modelled data in the location of the interest, a previous general validation of the simulation has been performed. This previous validation indicates that most of the disagreements between simulation and observations are attributable to the too coarse spatial resolution of the regional model.
AB - A wind data base and a web tool have been developed to estimate the wind power over the Iberian Peninsula (IP). This tool also allows estimating the most appropriate Small Wind Turbine (SWT) for a given location. The wind database includes observational and simulated wind data. The simulated data consists on a 10 km hindcast, covering the period 1960-2007, generated with a Regional Climate Model (RCM) driven by ERA40. The observational data base has been built from hourly records encompassing the period 1999-2007 and includes more than 450 stations evenly distributed over Spain. A quality control has been applied to the data in order to assess the reliability of the observational data set. Although the web tool provides information which allows the users to estimate the reliability of the modelled data in the location of the interest, a previous general validation of the simulation has been performed. This previous validation indicates that most of the disagreements between simulation and observations are attributable to the too coarse spatial resolution of the regional model.
KW - Regional climate model
KW - Simulations skill
KW - Sitting
KW - Wind resource assessment
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85073358423
U2 - 10.24084/repqj10.673
DO - 10.24084/repqj10.673
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073358423
SN - 2172-038X
VL - 1
SP - 1264
EP - 1269
JO - Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal
JF - Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal
IS - 10
ER -