Task 1.1 Available Data Sets

Meteorological data from tall towers

The following list was compiled by IEA Wind Task 36 Forecasting for Wind Energy.

Another source is The Tall Tower Dataset at INDECIS Data portal. This is database of 222 tall towers around the world compiled with a common format (netCDF) and quality controlled. For some towers the latest data is from 2018. See The Tall Tower Dataset Technical Note for a description of the quality control, and a list of the towers in the appendix.

Other lists of tower data

• The Tall Tower Dataset at INDECIS Data portal. See top.
• DTU Wind Energy online data projects:
• UK offshore masts from UK Marine Data Exchange
• WFIP2 data, or WFIP2 at NOAA
• BPA Meteorological Information: Meteorological Information from BPA (Bonneville Power Administration) Weather Sites in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. However, the tallest tower is only 63 m high.
• Wind Atlas for South Africa data, 10 masts of 100m across the country.
• ICOS Atmospheric Measurement Network: ICOS is the European Integrated Carbon Observation System to measure the carbon cycle. However, at least some of the masts measure wind at or above 100 m agl. E.g.
• The Wind Resource Assessment Group wiki has datasets and mast data, partially overlapping the results here.

Status: January 15 2020, Helmut Frank (DWD) Gregor Giebel (DTU), Andrew Clifton (WINDFORS), Will Shaw (PNNL).