Wind - model statistics for 1979-2013 at 10-200 meters above the North Sea - KNW End user pack of maps and time series
The KNW (KNMI North Sea Wind) atlas is based on the ERA-Interim reanalyses dataset which captures more than 40 years (January 1979 - August 2019) of meteorological measurements and generates 3D wind (temperature, etc) fields consistent with these measurements and the laws of physics. This dataset is downscaled using the state-of-the-art weather forecasting model, HARMONIE with a horizontal grid of 2.5 km. The vertical profile of wind speed was calibrated against the 200 m tall Cabauw measurement mast to obtain a single wind shear correction coefficient which was applied throughout the whole dataset. The result is a high resolution dataset of more than 40 years: the KNW dataset. The model statistics in this specific dataset cover the original 35 year period of the KNW Atlas.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2015-06-12
- Edition
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8
- Citation identifier
- urn:xkdc:ds:nl.knmi::KNW-ENDUSER-PACK/1.0/
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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DG Discovery Properties Vocabulary 1.0
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Wind
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KNMI North Sea wind atlas
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Statistics
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North Sea
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Climate
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- Keywords
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Open data
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Core dataset
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- Use limitation
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No use limitations
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Distance
- 2500 meters
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1979-01-01
- End date
- 2014-01-01
Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 10.0
- Maximum value
- 200.0
- Supplemental Information
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Read the manual at the KNW website: https://www.knmiprojects.nl/projects/knw-atlas.
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
- Distribution format
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Name Version ZIP
1
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name landingpage
https://dataplatform.knmi.nl/catalog/datasets/index.html?x-dataset=KNW-ENDUSER-PACK&x-dataset-version=1.0 KNMI Data Platform
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Quantitative result
- Value
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complete (all days between 1979-01-01 and 2013-12-31)
- Statement
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Every 6 hours the ERA-Interim Re-analysis initializes the HARMONIE Weather Model cycle 37h1.1 throughout the whole of the model domain. The atlas is comprised of the successive 1-6 hour HARMONIE forecasts after each 6 hourly cold start.
Metadata
- File identifier
- bd3cdaee-47b2-44e6-a258-b93ee1dc40a4 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-06-02T08:23:48.250124Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003 NL Kernset 1.3 KNMI 1.1
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding Dutch; Flemish English UTF8
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