How were the wind maps for Small windExplorer generated and validated?
The wind map displayed in the New York State Small windExplorer were created with AWS Truepower’s MesoMap® system, which is well known in the wind industry as the technology behind ground-breaking wind maps published for the United States as well as many other countries. MesoMap is a combination of mesoscale and microscale atmospheric models. The mesoscale model simulates weather conditions for a representative meteorological year on a horizontal grid of 2.5 km. Starting from an initial condition established by regional weather data and using the complete set of physical equations governing the atmosphere, the model simulates the evolution of weather conditions from the start to end of each day in the representative year. The microscale model then refines the wind fields from the mesoscale model to capture the local influences topography and surface roughness changes at a high resolution of 200 m. The wind map and associated data are fine-tuned using the best available surface observat
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