Articles | Volume 5, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-375-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-375-2020
Research article
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27 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 27 Mar 2020

Europe's offshore winds assessed with synthetic aperture radar, ASCAT and WRF

Charlotte B. Hasager, Andrea N. Hahmann, Tobias Ahsbahs, Ioanna Karagali, Tija Sile, Merete Badger, and Jakob Mann

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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. Furthermore, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) offshore wind atlas of NEWA is presented.
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