Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
NREL
project coordination
data collection and analysis
review and validation of preliminary wind maps from numerical modeling
final map development and resource characterization
documentation
Country Organizations
Type of Information
Surface observations more than
20000 stations
Rawinsonde and pibal
observations at 1800 stations
10-m ocean wind speeds gridded
to 0.25 deg
Gridded (1.0 deg) statistics of
historical ship wind observations
Model -derived gridde d (~200km)
upper air data
Model -derived gridded (2.5 deg)
upper air statistics
Political, hydrography, etc.
Source
NOAA/NCDC
NCAR
Period of Record
Variable up to
2006
1973 -2005
NASA/JPL
1988 -2006
NOAA/NCDC
1854 -1969
NCAR
1958 -2005
NOAA/NCDC
1980 -1991
USGS/EROS
NASA/USGS
ESRI
Key Deliverables
Afghanistan and Pakistan Wind Mapping
High resolution annual wind power maps, with documentation, for
distribution:
Wind
Class
Wind
Power
W/m 2
Wind
Speed
m/s
Land
Area
km 2
400 - 500
6.8 7.3
15,193
2.4
Total
Capacity
Installed
MW
75,970
Excellent
500 - 600
7.3 7.7
6,633
1.0
33,160
Excellent
600 - 800
7.7 8.5
6,615
1.0
33,100
Excellent
> 800
> 8.5
3,169
0.5
15,800
31,611
4.9
158,100
Total
Assumptions
Installed capacity per km 2 = 5 MW
Total land area of Afghanistan = 645,810 km 2
Percent
Windy
Land
Wind
Class
Wind
Power
2
W/m
Wind
Speed
m/s
Land
Area
2
km
400 - 500
6.9 7.4
18,106
2.1
Total
Capacity
Installed
MW
90,530
Excellent
500 - 600
7.4 7.8
5,218
0.6
26,090
Excellent
600 - 800
7.8 8.6
2,495
0.3
12,480
Excellent
> 800
> 8.6
543
0.1
2,720
26,362
3.0
131,8 00
Total
Assumptions
Installed capacity per km 2 = 5 MW
Total land area of Pakistan = 877,525 km 2
Only land area included in calculations
Percent
Windy
Land