Europe's offshore winds assessed with synthetic aperture radar, ASCAT and WRF
Europe's offshore wind resource mapping is part of the New European Wind Atlas (NEWA) international consortium effort. This study presents the results of analysis of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ocean wind maps based on Envisat and Sentinel-1 with a brief description of the wind retrieval process and Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) ocean wind maps. The wind statistics at 10 and 100 m above mean sea level (a.m.s.l.) height using an extrapolation procedure involving simulated long-term stability over oceans are presented for both SAR and ASCAT. Furthermore, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) offshore wind atlas of NEWA is presented. This has 3 km grid spacing with data …
Europe’s offshore winds assessed from SAR, ASCAT and WRF
Abstract. Europe’s offshore wind resource mapping is part of the New European Wind Atlas (NEWA) international consortium effort. This study presents the results of analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ocean wind maps based on Envisat and Sentinel-1 with a brief description of the wind retrieval process and Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) ocean wind maps. The wind statistics at 10m and 100m height using an extrapolation procedure involving simulated long-term stability over oceans is presented for both SAR and ASCAT. Furthermore, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) offshore wind atlas of NEWA is presented. This has 3 km grid resolution with data every 30 minutes during 30 years f…
Offshore wind fields in near-real-time
An archive of wind fields retrieved from satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations over the ocean by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU, https://ror.org/04qtj9h94). The wind fields are instantaneous ocean backscatter measurements converted to ocean winds at 10m above the sea surface, through the implementation of dedicated retrieval algorithms and input wind directions from numerical models. The archive is updated daily and users can browse and download the wind fields though a web interface. The maps are available in .nc and .png format. The archive of wind fields is generated with the SAR Ocean Products System (SAROPS) developed by the Johns Hopkins University, Applied P…