WRDB: Wind Resource Database (US & International)

Abstract

The Wind Resource Database (WRDB) is a collection of modeled wind resource estimates for the United States and various countries around the globe of various lengths up to over 20 years.

Most of the data are available in 5-minute (min.) intervals at 2-kilometer (km) spatial resolution. For the United States, uncertainty estimates are also provided.

For a given location covered by a dataset, it is possible to see the wind resource either at a given time or averaged over a certain period. We also provide several other meteorological quantities needed for wind energy research.