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Wind Patterns in last few years

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  • 18-10-2011 10:37am
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    chris85
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    Hi all,

    I am doing some research on wind energy and looking to see where i could find some info on wind speeds in Ireland with a comparison to other countries for the last few years.

    I know the west of Ireland has some of the highest mean annual wind speeds in Europe but I need some good info confirming this from a good source.

    Very little info on the Met website so thought a few nice boardsies may be able to help.

    Cheers.


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    Joe Public
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    You could try http://www.windguru.cz/int/
    They also have some archives


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    pauldry
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    Cant help too much except to say that for the best part of 2011 we have been pummelled by West/Northwest Winds in Sligo


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    octo
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    I wouldn't take the last few years as typical examples - they were dominated by long periods of high pressure without much wind. You have to look at long term averages.
    This looks good: http://www.energy.eu/publications/a07.pdf


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    Conchir
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    Ordnance Survey have a wind speed map on their website: http://shop.osi.ie/Shop/Products/Default.aspx#wind

    I'm not sure if this will be any help because I'm not really experienced in this, I just remembered seeing it on the OSI website.


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    chris85
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    Joe Public wrote: »
    You could try http://www.windguru.cz/int/
    They also have some archives

    Will have good look at that this evening. Cheers.
    pauldry wrote: »
    Cant help too much except to say that for the best part of 2011 we have been pummelled by West/Northwest Winds in Sligo

    Very strong as of late.
    Conchir wrote: »
    Ordnance Survey have a wind speed map on their website: http://shop.osi.ie/Shop/Products/Default.aspx#wind

    I'm not sure if this will be any help because I'm not really experienced in this, I just remembered seeing it on the OSI website.

    They look good but bit too in depth. Need a higher level view of this though.
    octo wrote: »
    I wouldn't take the last few years as typical examples - they were dominated by long periods of high pressure without much wind. You have to look at long term averages.
    This looks good: http://www.energy.eu/publications/a07.pdf

    I will be using the last few years from a research perspective I could not just leave it out but I will also be looking at long term trends. This is probably the most interesting part for me to look at.


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