CorRES Input Data: Global Wind Resource and Spatial Features for Renewable Energy Modeling

271.4 MB of preprocessed wind resource and spatial data formatted for the CorRES model. The dataset combines global wind speed data from ERA5 (2006–2018) and the Global Wind Atlas (GWA2) with derived grid-based features like elevation, land-use indicators, and distance to shore. It was authored by Polyneikis Kanellas and last updated on April 22, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling wind energy potential based on ERA5 and GWA2 mean wind speed data at 50m, 100m, and 200m heights.
• Assessing site suitability for wind farms based on precomputed grid layers for elevation, urban areas, and protected areas.
• Calculating exclusion criteria for offshore wind development based on distance to onshore locations around Europe.
• Integrating solar resource data into energy models using the included mean global horizontal irradiance (GHI) layer.

Strengths

• Includes wind speed data from two authoritative global sources, ERA5 and GWA2, providing temporal and high-resolution spatial perspectives.
• Contains 271.4 MB of precomputed, aligned grid layers (e.g., elevation, land-use, protected areas) ready for direct use in CorRES workflows.
• Covers a 12-year temporal range (2006–2018) for ERA5 wind data and provides GWA2 data on a ~3 km global grid.

Limitations

• The 'Distance from Shore' exclusion criterion is currently calculated only for offshore regions surrounding Europe, limiting global applicability for this feature.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale statistical modeling.

Provenance

Source

Combines data from ERA5, Global Wind Atlas (GWA2), Natural Earth, European Environment Agency (EEA), SRTM, Viewfinder Panoramas DEMs, GEBCO, and OpenStreetMap.

Collection Method

Data preprocessing and combination from multiple public sources, formatted for the CorRES model.

Time Range

ERA5 data covers 2006–2018.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 11:36:22; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global coverage, with specific high-resolution wind data on a ~3 km grid from GWA2.