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Brent Wood
Through the Global Atlas, 3Tier is now making available to the community its
Global wind
Dataset and Global Solar Dataset (Global horizontal Irradiation - GHI) for
emerged land with a high level of details.
The Global Solar dataset compiles more
than 11 years of data and was compared to 92 surface stations across the globe.
The spatial resolution is 3km.
The Global Wind Dataset provides the average
annual wind speed at 80 meters. It is builts from computer simulations
of hourly values over a 10-year period. The wind speeds were compared to
observations from more than 4,000 meteorological stations around the
globe from the NCEP Automated Data Processing
dataset, with a spatial resolution of approx. 5km.
This release is also a step forward for the Global Atlas. The initiative
reached a level of maturity were it is able to address the intellectual
property aspects of
private-owned data. The legal framework of the Global Atlas enables to
make available - at least part of - the large amount of data being
compiled by the private sector. It adds value both to our end-users by
supplying information that is not in the public
domain, and also adds value to the data providers that can share a
valuable part of their knowledge, without compromising their business
models.
Press release:
http://www.3tier.com/en/about/press-releases/3tier-and-irena-collaborate-give-researchers-access-better-renewable-energy-information/
Data access: http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/
Direct map access: http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/?map=543
Brent Wood
Through the Global Atlas, 3Tier is now making available to the community its
Global wind
Dataset and Global Solar Dataset (Global horizontal Irradiation - GHI) for
emerged land with a high level of details.
The Global Solar dataset compiles more
than 11 years of data and was compared to 92 surface stations across the globe.
The spatial resolution is 3km.
The Global Wind Dataset provides the average
annual wind speed at 80 meters. It is builts from computer simulations
of hourly values over a 10-year period. The wind speeds were compared to
observations from more than 4,000 meteorological stations around the
globe from the NCEP Automated Data Processing
dataset, with a spatial resolution of approx. 5km.
This release is also a step forward for the Global Atlas. The initiative
reached a level of maturity were it is able to address the intellectual
property aspects of
private-owned data. The legal framework of the Global Atlas enables to
make available - at least part of - the large amount of data being
compiled by the private sector. It adds value both to our end-users by
supplying information that is not in the public
domain, and also adds value to the data providers that can share a
valuable part of their knowledge, without compromising their business
models.
Press release:
http://www.3tier.com/en/about/press-releases/3tier-and-irena-collaborate-give-researchers-access-better-renewable-energy-information/
Data access: http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/
Direct map access: http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/?map=543