Development of Regional Wind Resource and Wind Plant Output Datasets. Final Subcontract Report, 15 October 2007-15 March 2009

摘要

The report covers the period of the contract from October 15, 2007 through March 15, 2009. The final delivered outcomes of this project include: (1) This report detailing the work produced: (2) 30 validation reports for the purpose of tuning the mesoscale models; (3) The numerical weather prediction (NWP) simulations for 2004-2006 in NetCDF format with a spatial resolution of one arc-minute and a temporal resolution of ten minutes; (4) 30,544 original sites and 1499 additional that were extracted into time series data files for 2004-2006; (5) Solar forecasts from mesoscale models for a regular grid of 8736 points; (6) 28 validation reports for the final data set on publicly available data; (7) 2 validation reports on confidentially sourced data; (8) SCORE-lite validation report; (9) Web-based graphical file server, and (10) Extension to the contract where each of the 32,043 sites had wind speed and wind direction pulled from the model runs at 10 m, 20 m, 50 m, 100 m, and 200 m.