EOOffshore: ERA5 Wind Data for the Irish Continental Shelf Region

<p><a href="https://eooffshore.github.io">EOOffshore</a> is a <a href="https://www.seai.ie/">Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)</a> funded <a href="https://www.seai.ie/data-and-insights/seai-research/research-projects/details/building-upon-copernicus-earth-observation-services-to-augment-wind-measurement-coverage-of-the-oredp-offshore-renewable-energy-assessment-areas">project</a>, which commenced in June 2020 in the <a href="https://www.ucd.ie/physics/">School of Physics</a> in <a href="https://www.ucd.ie/">University College Dublin (UCD)</a>. It presents a case study that demonstrates the utility of the <a href="https://pangeo.io/">Pangeo</a> software ecosystem in the development of offshore wind speed and power density estimates, increasing wind measurement coverage of offshore renewable energy assessment areas in the <a href="https://www.marine.ie/Home/site-area/irelands-marine-resource/real-map-ireland">Irish Continental Shelf (ICS)</a> region. It has involved the creation of a new <a href="https://eooffshore.github.io/datasets.html">wind data catalog</a> for this region, consisting of a collection of analysis-ready, cloud-optimized (ARCO) datasets featuring up to 21 years of available in situ, reanalysis, and satellite observation wind data products.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/reanalysis-datasets/era5">ERA5</a> is the fifth generation global reanalysis data set produced by the <a href="https://www.ecmwf.int/">European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)</a>. It is a component of the <a href="https://climate.copernicus.eu/">Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)</a>, where data products are publicly available in the <a href="http://As requested by the ECMWF - Licence to Use Copernicus Products, this Zarr store was: Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information [2001 - 2021]">C3S Climate Data Store</a>. This particular catalog data set (<em>eooffshore_ics_era5_single_level_hourly_wind.zarr.tar.gz</em>) contains 2001-2021 products for the ICS region from the <a href="https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels?tab=overview"><em>ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1979 to present</em></a> data set, which provides hourly data from 1979 to the present day, at single levels (atmospheric, ocean-wave and land surface quantities). Wind speed and direction have been calculated from the <em>uX</em> and <em>vX</em> variables, where <em>X = 10 m</em> and <em>100 m</em> above sea level. This ERA5 data set was used in the EOOffshore project outputs presented (<em><a href="https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/EGU22-2746.html">Scalable Offshore Wind Analysis With Pangeo</a></em>) at the <em><a href="https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/42046">Meeting Exascale Computing Challenges with Compression and Pangeo</a></em> <a href="https://www.egu22.eu/">2022 EGU General Assembly</a> session.</p> <p>Description and example usage of the ERA5 data set in EOOffshore:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://eooffshore.github.io/ERA5_ICS_Wind_Data.html">ERA5 Wind Data for Irish Continental Shelf region</a></li> <li><a href="https://eooffshore.github.io/Offshore_Wind_AOI.html">Offshore Wind in Irish Areas Of Interest</a></li> <li><a href="https://eooffshore.github.io/Comparison_Wind_Power.html">Comparison of Offshore Wind Speed Extrapolation and Power Density Estimation</a></li> </ul> <p>As requested by the <a href="https://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/licences/copernicus/">ECMWF - Licence to Use Copernicus Products</a>, this Zarr store was:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information [2001 - 2021]</p> </li> </ul>