Performance of wind assessment datasets in United States coastal areas

Sheridan, Lindsay M.; Wang, Jiali; Draxl, Caroline; Bodini, Nicola; Phillips, Caleb; Duplyakin, Dmitry; Tinnesand, Heidi; Rai, Raj K.; Flaherty, Julia E.; Berg, Larry K.; Jung, Chunyong; Young, Ethan; Kotamarthi, Rao

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1551-2025

Articles | Volume 10, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1551-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1551-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 8

Research article

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04 Aug 2025

Research article |

| 04 Aug 2025

Performance of wind assessment datasets in United States coastal areas

Lindsay M. Sheridan, Jiali Wang, Caroline Draxl, Nicola Bodini, Caleb Phillips, Dmitry Duplyakin, Heidi Tinnesand, Raj K. Rai, Julia E. Flaherty, Larry K. Berg, Chunyong Jung, Ethan Young, and Rao Kotamarthi

Data sets

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

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

Atmosphere to Electrons DOE https://a2e.energy.gov

Global Wind Atlas DTU https://globalwindatlas.info/en/

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

Wind Resource Database NREL https://wrdb. nrel.gov/data-viewer

ERA5 ECMWF https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/reanalysis-era5-single-levels?tab=download

Short summary

Three recent wind resource datasets are assessed for their skills in representing annual average wind speeds and seasonal, diurnal, and interannual trends in the wind resource in coastal locations to support customers interested in small and midsize wind energy.