Articles | Volume 10, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1451-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1451-2025
Research article
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22 Jul 2025
Research article |  | 22 Jul 2025

Evaluating the potential of short-term instrument deployment to improve distributed wind resource assessment

Lindsay M. Sheridan, Dmitry Duplyakin, Caleb Phillips, Heidi Tinnesand, Raj K. Rai, Julia E. Flaherty, and Larry K. Berg

Data sets

Argonne 60 m Meteorological Tower Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) https://www.atmos.anl.gov/ANLMET/

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User Facility Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) https://www.arm.gov/capabilities/instruments?location[0]=Southern Great Plains

The Tall Tower Dataset B2SHARE https://b2share.eudat.eu/records/159158152f4d4be79559e2f3f6b1a410

Current Observations Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) https://wx1.bnl.gov/

AmeriFlux LBNL https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/site-search/#filter-type=all&has-data=All&site_id=

Flatirons Campus Data NREL https://midcdmz.nrel.gov//apps/sitehome.pl?site=NWTC

BPA Meteorological Information BPA https://transmission.bpa.gov/Business/Operations/Wind/MetData/default.aspx

National Data Buoy Center National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

University of Vermont, Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, Raw Proctor Maple Research Center Meteorological Data FEMC https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/proctor-maple-research-center-meteorological-monitoring/dataset/proctor-maple-research-center-air-quality-1/overview

Atmosphere to Electrons U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) https://a2e.energy.gov

Global Wind Atlas Technical University of Denmark (DTU) https://globalwindatlas.info/en/

2019COE_DW100_100kW_27.6 NREL https://nrel.github.io/turbine-models/2019COE_DW100_100kW_27.6.html

WindWatts NREL https://windwatts.nrel.gov/

ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1940 to present H. Hersbach et al. https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.adbb2d47

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Short summary
A total of 12 months of onsite wind measurement is standard for correcting model-based long-term wind speed estimates for utility-scale wind farms; however, the time and capital investment involved in gathering onsite measurements must be reconciled with the energy needs and funding opportunities for distributed wind projects. This study aims to answer the question of how short you can go in terms of the observational time period needed to make impactful improvements to long-term wind speed estimates.
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