ERA-NET Plus - New European Wind Atlas

The New European Wind Atlas is aimed at reducing uncertainties in determining wind conditions for wind power production and wind turbine design, and is structured around three areas of work, to be implemented in parallel:
 

1. Creation and publication of a European Wind Atlas in electronic form, which wiII include all the measured, collected and produced data such as maps and wind climate statistics, presenting wind resources and their associated uncertainty; extreme wind and uncertainty; turbulence characteristics; adverse weather conditions such as heavy icing, electrical storms and so on
together with the probability of occurrence; the level of predictability for short-term forecasting and assessment of uncertainties. Guidelines and best practices for the use of data especially for micro-siting.
 

2. Development of dynamical downscaling methodologies and open-source models validated through measurement campaigns, to enable the provision of accurate wind resource and external wind load climatology and short-term prediction at high spatial resolution and covering Europe. The developed downscaling methodologies and models will be used to produce the maps of wind
resources and other relevant data at several heights and at high horizontal resolution.
 

3. Measurement campaigns in various European topographical settings to validate the model chain used in the wind atlas.