North Sea Wind Turbine Gridded Data at Three Spatial Resolutions, 2015-2016

Georeferenced data of wind turbines in the North Sea from 2015 to 2016, produced by the Government Digital Service. The dataset is provided as gridded ASCII text at three spatial resolutions: 0.1, 0.25, and 0.5 decimal degrees. Values represent the estimated proportion of each grid cell occupied by turbine structures.

Use Cases

• Modeling the spatial footprint of offshore wind farms based on gridded proportion data.
• Assessing the influence of man-made structures on marine ecosystems based on the data's stated purpose for the COSM and EcoConnect projects.
• Analyzing the density and distribution of wind energy infrastructure in the North Sea region.
• Providing spatial inputs for environmental impact assessments based on the gridded cell occupancy values.

Strengths

• Data is provided at three distinct spatial resolutions (0.1, 0.25, and 0.5 decimal degrees), allowing for multi-scale analysis.
• Covers a specific, economically significant region (the North Sea) over a defined two-year period (2015-2016).
• Derived to support specific, named research projects (COSM and EcoConnect) under the INSITE programme.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Derived as model inputs for Cefas projects under the INSITE programme.

Time Range

2015-2016

Freshness

Data covers 2015-2016; last update date is unknown.

Geography

North Sea