Mountain Wind Patterns in South Korea from 16 Meteorological Stations, 2020-2024

Wind data from 16 mountainous and 5 standard meteorological stations in a coastal region of South Korea, spanning from 2020 to 2024. The dataset, authored by Tae Kyung Yoon, includes mean wind speeds ranging from 0.93 to 5.73 m s⁻¹ and was used for a pioneering local-scale analysis of spatiotemporal wind flow in complex terrain.

Use Cases

• Modeling wind speed variations based on topographic position (top-, mid-, bottom-slope) and forest canopy structure.
• Analyzing seasonal wind patterns (stronger in winter, weaker in summer) influenced by mid-latitude winds and canopy phenology.
• Clustering daily wind characteristics (speed, direction, recirculation) based on synoptic and local flow patterns.
• Developing generalized linear models to explain spatial wind speed variations using geographical, forest, and temporal variables.

Strengths

• Data spans a 5-year period from 2020 to 2024, providing a multi-year temporal context.
• Includes observations from 21 distinct stations (16 mountainous, 5 standard) for spatial comparison.
• Mean wind speeds are provided, with a documented range from 0.93 to 5.73 m s⁻¹.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The primary data file is a DOCX document (670.7 KB), which may require extraction or conversion for analysis.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Tae Kyung Yoon.

Collection Method

Observational data from a mountain meteorological observation network in South Korea.

Time Range

2020 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 05:31:01; freshness should be verified.

Geography

A mountainous coastal region in South Korea.