Global Extreme Wind Speed Trends for Offshore Wind Energy, 1940-2023

ERA5 reanalysis provides hourly global wind speed data from 1940 to 2023. The dataset quantifies long-term trends in the fifty-year return period wind speed, a crucial factor for wind turbine design. It was authored by Yanan Zhao and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Assess offshore wind turbine design loads based on trends in fifty-year return period wind speed.
• Model climate change impacts on offshore energy infrastructure based on extreme wind speed data.
• Validate and calibrate other wind resource models using the ERA5 reanalysis data mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data spans 83 years (1940-2023), providing a long-term climatological perspective.
• Source is the ERA5 reanalysis, a widely-used global atmospheric dataset.
• Focuses on the fifty-year return period wind speed, a key engineering design parameter.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect the biases and limitations inherent to the ERA5 reanalysis model.

Provenance

Source

ERA5 reanalysis.

Collection Method

Analysis of hourly global wind speed data.

Time Range

1940-2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 06:12:14; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global