Average Wind Power Density at 100 meters in Senegal, Gambia and Guinea Bissau

Created by NOVELTIS for ECREEE during the ACP-EU project ECOWREX 2: Promoting Sustainable Energy Development through the use of Geospatial Technologies in West Africa

This dataset shows the average Wind Power Density at 100 meter high over the year 2013.

The average is calculated from hourly time series data generated by NOVELTIS meso-scale Numeric Weather Prediction system.

The resolution is 4km x 4km.

The unit is W/m2.

Projection is latlon, EPSG 4326, WGS 84.

This dataset is not indicated for local studies but only for regional comparison.

The annual average was calculated from hourly time series data generated by NOVELTIS meso-scale Numeric Weather Prediction system over the full 2013 year.

The values are calculated from NWP output extracted parameters:

U = West-East component of the wind speed

V = South-North component of the wind speed.

ALT = inverse density

AL = inverse perturbation density

According to the following formula:

WPD = 1/2* 1/(ALT+AL) * (WS)3

With WS = √(U2 + V2)

The 2013 year was selected by NOVELTIS as TMY (typical meteorological year) through a regional climatic analysis for the period from 2000 to 2014.

Minimum=50.603 W/m2

Maximum=939.513 W/m2

Mean=263.397 W/m2

StdDev=96.270 W/m2

Date (Creation): 2016-06-11T00:00:00

Presentation form: Digital map

Status: Completed

Originator

NOVELTIS SAS - Richard Bru

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Theme

Wind resource
wind power density
wind
Senegal
Gambia
Guinea Bissau
Renewable energy resources

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Denominator: 5000000

Metadata language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2012-12-30T00:00:00

End date: 2013-12-30T00:00:00 Before

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