Open-Meteo Wind

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Open-Meteo Wind#

This resource class downloads wind resource data from the OpenMeteo Archive API

This dataset allows for resource data to be downloaded for:

  • resource years from 1940 to year before the current calendar year.

  • locations across the globe.

  • resource heights from 10 and 100 meters.

  • time intervals of 60 minutes.

Available Data#

Resource Data

Resource Heights (m)

wind_speed

10, 100

wind_direction

10, 100

temperature

2

pressure

0

relative_humidity

2

precipitation_rate

0

Additional Data

Included

site_id

X

site_lat

X

site_lon

X

elevation

--

site_tz

*see note

data_tz

X

filepath

X

year

X

month

X

day

X

hour

X

minute

X

Note

site_tz (the site timezone) is not output explicitly from this model, but data_tz would equal the site timezone (specified in plant_config["plant"]["simulation"]["timezone"]) is set as a non-zero value. Otherwise, the resource data is pulled with timestamps given in UTC (this is the default behavior)

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