Name: Wind speed 100m above ground level (metres per second)
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Description: Garrad Hassan Pacific Pty Ltd, trading as DNV GL, was engaged to provide a proposal to the New South Wales Department of Industry. New South Wales Department of Industry requested that DNV GL provide a proposal to undertake wind mapping for the onshore and 250 km offshore of New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
DNV GL generated a wind speed map covering onshore NSW and approximately 250 km offshore from NSW, in accordance with the Methodology described in the Lineage statement.
DNV GL considered the most efficient method for covering such a large area within the available budget was to make use of previously generated mesoscale modeling at a horizontal spatial resolution of approximately 5 km. DNV GL then used the mesoscale model outputs to create WAsP Wind Atlas Library (.LIB) files and conduct finer resolution 1 km microscale modelling.
DNV GL provided the microscale wind speed map across NSW at a horizontal spatial resolution of 1km in a GIS format able to be manipulated by the Department. The wind speed results were provided at one height, 100 metres, above ground level (AGL) specified by the Department.
Date of compilation: 2016