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Title: Wind: Monthly and Annual Average Wind GIS Data at One-Degree Resolution of the World from NASA/SSE (1983-1993)

Dates

• Issued: 2005
• Coverage: 1983
• Coverage: 1993

Publishers

• NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Data Center

Summary

This polygon shapefile contains data for wind speed at 50 m above the surface of the Earth (m/s) These data are 10-year monthly and annual averages ranging from July 1983 to June 1993. The source data was downloaded from the Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy (SSE) website as text files. The tabular data was then converted to the shapefile format. This is the 5th release of these data. These data provide investors and other stakeholders with reliable, verifiable and accessible information on the solar resource potential for the data domain. NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Data Center. (2008) Wind: Monthly and Annual Average Wind GIS Data at One-Degree Resolution of the World from NASA/SSE (1983-1993). NASA Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/wp386wc6721 Spatial Extent: Global Bounding Coordinates (decimal degrees) South: -90.00, North: 90.00, West: -180.00, East: 180.00Co-ordinate System: Geographic, Datum: WGS84, Ellipsoid: WGS84. Polygon shapefile with fields as defined belowID (mandatory) - I4, unique identifier for each polygonannual (mandatory) - R4, mean annual value in (kWh/m2/day)jan, feb, mar, apr, may, jun, jul, aug, sep, oct, nov, dec (optional) - R4, mean monthly value in (kWh/m2/day)janmin, febmin, marmin, aprmin, maymin, junmin, julmin, augmin sepmin, octmin, novmin, decmin (optional) - R4, minimum monthly mean value in (kWh/m2/day)janmax, febmax, marmax, aprmax, maymax, junmax, julmax, augmax, sepmax, octmax, novmax, decmax (optional) - R4, maximum monthly mean value in (kWh/m2/day)numyears (optional) - I4, number of years used in estimate

Subjects

• Earth
• Earth (Planet)
• Wind power
• Climatology, Meteorology and Atmosphere
• Utilities and Communication
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-180.0, 180.0, 90.0, -90.0)
• Geometry: BBOX (-180.0, 180.0, 90.0, -90.0)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Data Center. Wind: Monthly and Annual Average Wind GIS Data at One-Degree Resolution of the World from NASA/SSE (1983-1993). NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Data Center. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/wp386wc6721

Format

Shapefile

Languages

• English