Validation of wind resource and energy production simulations for small wind turbines in the United States
Data sets
Wind Forecast Improvement Project 1 https://a2e.energy.gov/projects/wfip1
Integrated Surface Dataset https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/search/data-search/global-hourly
National Data Buoy Center https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
Argonne 60 m Meteorological Tower https://www.atmos.anl.gov/ANLMET/
Current Observations https://wx1.bnl.gov/
Flatirons Campus Data https://www.nrel.gov/wind/nwtc/data.html
AmeriFlux https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/site-search/#filter-type=all&has-data=All&site_id=
The Tall Tower Dataset https://b2share.eudat.eu/records/159158152f4d4be79559e2f3f6b1a410
BPA Meteorological Information https://transmission.bpa.gov/Business/Operations/Wind/MetData/default.aspx
Resource Data https://www.umass.edu/windenergy/resourcedata
Wind Integration National Dataset Toolkit https://www.nrel.gov/grid/wind-toolkit.html
ERA5 https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/reanalysis-datasets/era5
Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/reanalysis/MERRA-2/data_access/
System Advisor Model (SAM) https://sam.nrel.gov/
Wind Report http://www.newrootsenergy.com/page/wind_report
MyWindTurbine.com https://www.mywindturbine.com/
Global Wind Atlas https://globalwindatlas.info/