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6 ConclusionsCurrently, policy makers <strong>and</strong> energy planners trying to tackling <strong>the</strong> challenges of climatechange <strong>and</strong> seeking approaches <strong>for</strong> climate change mitigation, have no global windresource dataset appropriate <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir pressing needs. The Global Wind Atlas, outlined inthis paper, will provide <strong>the</strong> datasets that are required. While, it will not substitute <strong>the</strong>dedicated country specific wind resource assessment, which feature a more in depthverification process, <strong>the</strong> level of accuracy will be much superior to <strong>the</strong> current globaldatasets that are in use.The current practice of global energy modellers is to use coarse resolution reanalysisdatasets. This has <strong>the</strong> serious shortcoming that <strong>the</strong> wind energy resource isunderestimated, as small scale variability of wind is missing. This missing variability isresponsible <strong>for</strong> a large part of <strong>the</strong> wind energy resource being missed. Fur<strong>the</strong>rin<strong>for</strong>mation about <strong>the</strong> ‘local’ spatial distribution of wind resources will be gained, thusknowledge of <strong>the</strong> resources at windy sites can be obtained, ra<strong>the</strong>r than mean windresource which smear out <strong>the</strong> best wind resource values.The Global Wind Atlas will provide data at high resolution <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> whole world, using aunified methodology, <strong>and</strong> will providing an uncertainty estimate based on use of anumber of input reanalysis datasets <strong>and</strong> methodologies.7 AcknowledgementsThe work was undertaken in collaboration with <strong>the</strong> Danish <strong>Energy</strong> Agency.8 ReferencesBadger J., M. Kelly, H. E. Jørgensen, 2010. Workshop Climate Change Impacts <strong>and</strong>Integrated Assessment (CCIIA). July 27-August 4,2010 http://emf.stan<strong>for</strong>d.edu/files/docs/259/Jorgensen8-3.pdfKalnay, E., <strong>and</strong> Coauthors, 1996: The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bull.Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77,437–471.Saha, S., <strong>and</strong> coauthors, 2010: The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis. Bull.Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91, 1015–1057. doi: 10.1175/2010BAMS3001.1Troen I., <strong>and</strong> E. L. Petersen, 1989. European Wind Atlas. Risø National Laboratory <strong>for</strong><strong>the</strong> Commission of <strong>the</strong> European Communities, Roskilde, Denmark, 1989. ISBN 87-550-1482-8.Risø International <strong>Energy</strong> Conference 2011 Proceedings Page 225

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