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mix is required. For example diurnal or annual variation of wind resource may becomplimentary to o<strong>the</strong>r renewable energy sources.It is expected that geospatial in<strong>for</strong>mation system (GIS) applications will be one of <strong>the</strong>significant destinations of <strong>the</strong> Global Wind Atlas datasets. As location of wind resource,<strong>and</strong> its relationships to population centres, electrical transmission grids, terrain types <strong>and</strong>protected l<strong>and</strong> areas, are likely to be important parts of <strong>the</strong> resource assessmentdownstream of <strong>the</strong> generation of wind climate statistics.It is not <strong>the</strong> intention that <strong>the</strong> result of <strong>the</strong> Global Wind Atlas will be of interest to windfarm developers, as <strong>the</strong> accuracy of <strong>the</strong> resource data <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> level of verification willnot satisfy <strong>the</strong> same st<strong>and</strong>ards obtained via dedicated wind resource assessmentper<strong>for</strong>med <strong>for</strong> countries individually.Figure 11 show schematically <strong>the</strong> expected uncertainty <strong>for</strong> three methodologies todetermine wind resource. The ‘coarse climate data’ curve represents <strong>the</strong> current sourceof global resource estimation used by global energy planners, i.e. <strong>the</strong> direct applicationof wind data from global climate models. The ‘site specific study’ curve represents stateof <strong>the</strong> art resource studies conducted by, among o<strong>the</strong>rs, commercial companies. Thesetypes of study are necessary <strong>for</strong> accurate wind resource assessment at a specific sitebe<strong>for</strong>e development of a wind farm project. The ‘global wind atlas’ curve represents <strong>the</strong>methodology described here, which is designed to optimize appropriateness <strong>for</strong> globalenergy planners whilst being economical to produce.Figure 11: Schematic graph illustrating <strong>the</strong> uncertainty of wind resource data as afunction of different scales of aggregation. The horizontal axis gives scale ofaggregation, decreasing from left to right, from global to turbine site scales. The verticalaxis gives uncertainty <strong>and</strong> a value of 5% is given as reference level of uncertainty. Seemain text <strong>for</strong> fur<strong>the</strong>r explanation.Risø International <strong>Energy</strong> Conference 2011 Proceedings Page 224

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