Archive for March, 2011
Large scale weather correlations using R’s raster package
The previous post on this blog used historical wind speed data from ECMWF reanalysis. Reanalysis products are observation-based snapshots of past states of the atmosphere. They provide a physically consistent picture of the past using current models and the historical data. For example, suppose you want to know the relation between spatially averaged Irish and [...]
March 21, 2011
Posted in: Climate, Wind Energy 
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Bad Power
The map shows mean 10m wind speeds at 1.5o resolution during the period 2009-2010. Ireland is ideally located for wind power, at the end of North Atlantic storm tracks. For many wind advocates, discussion begins and ends with maps like this one. Some advocates even argue that wind power is a reliable source of electric power [...]
March 17, 2011
Posted in: Wind Energy 6 Comments
