1. WASA 2 – WP23 Microscale Modelling
Progress for period ending March/April 2017

2. WP23 activities and progress
Skype project meetings and project communication by
WAsP Climate Analyst 3 projects, Phase 1 + 2
Updated to end of 2016
WAsP workspaces for WASA, Phase 1 + 2
Reporting and milestones
WASA 2 site description
WASA 2 obs. wind atlas
WASA 1 obs. wind atlas
Supervised students using WASA data for wind farms
Seven WASA projects in DTU (1 in 3) [DTU]
Validation of air density estimation models continued
Global model based on reanalysis data [DTU]
Automatic air density estimation in WAsP 12 [DTU]
WASA 2 PIU meeting #6
5 May 2017

3. WASA SharePoint site updates
Station and site description spreadsheet, Phase 1 and 2
WASA 2 Station and Site Description Report (draft 6) + update
WAsP Climate Analyst 3 projects, Phase 1 + 2
Two projects for each site
Preliminary data filling
WAsP workspaces for WASA, Phase 1 + 2
WASA 1 Observational Wind Atlas Report (update)
WASA 2 Observational Wind Atlas Report (draft)
Global Wind Atlas – validation and uncertainty (WindEurope Resource Assessment 2017 presentation)
WASA 2 PIU meeting #6
5 May 2017

4. New Climate Analyst 3 projects
WM01 Alexander Bay
WM02 Calvinia
WM03 Vredendal
WM04 Vredenburg
WM05 Napier
WM06 Sutherland
WM07 Beaufort West
WM08 Humansdorp
WM09 Noupoort
WM10 Butterworth
62-m level only, OWC and OEWC, data filling, optimised for climatology
WM01
WM02
WM03
WM04
WM05
WM06
WM07
WM08
WM09
WM10
All levels, OWCs for profile studies, no data filling so far
WASA 2 PIU meeting #6
5 May 2017

5. WASA mast sites
WASA 2 PIU meeting #6
5 May 2017

6. WASA 2 one-year observed wind climates
Mast R A k U E
RIX
[%]
[ms−1]
[Wm−2]
WM11
99.0
8.2
1.72
7.52
548
11.1
WM12
100.0
5.6
1.87
5.00
152
0.0
WM13
5.9
1.94
5.21
173
WM14
8.3
2.08
7.45
448
1.6
WM15
99.8
6.9
2.15
6.10
255
WASA 2 PIU meeting #6
5 May 2017

7. Other issues WAsP and WEng licences Cooperation between DTU and CSIR
Updated plan for rest of WASA 2
Activities next period
Assessment of overlap period
Data filling and synthesis [DTU]
Long-term extrapolation [DTU]
Land cover and roughness maps
New DTU e-learning
WAsP and WEng on-demand courses
On-line wind energy master courses
WASA data on repositories
Data set treated as publication (academic credit)
WASA 2 PIU meeting #6
5 May 2017

8. WASA data on repositories
Data set treated as publication
Repository = library for data
Data are figures, maps, data sets, images, videos, etc.
DOI = Digital Object Identifier
Advantages
Sharing and backup of data
Archiving of project outputs
Academic credit, citations
Funders get recognition
Contributions to R&D
Repositories
Zenodo.org (CERN)
FigShare.com
DTU (under consideration)
Detailed wind resource maps
Western Cape
Eastern Cape
Northern Cape
WASA 1 domain, ver. 1 & 2
WAsP data and results
WASA yearly data files
Climate Analyst projects
WAsP workspaces
Other work packages
Comments and suggestions?
Sample WASA data sets
WASA 2 PIU meeting #6
5 May 2017

9. Data on repositories
WASA 2 PIU meeting #6
5 May 2017

10. Data set treated as publication
WASA 2 PIU meeting #6
5 May 2017