globalwindatlas

The package assists downloading and processing high-resolution (250m grid) maps with averaged wind potential from Global Wind Atlas. The data might be useful in energy systems modeling for selections of locations with high wind energy potential.

Documentation: https://energyrt.github.io/globalwindatlas/index.html

Installation

You can install the development version of globalwindatlas from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("energyRt/globalwindatlas")

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:

library(globalwindatlas)
## set directory for downloaded files, also will be used for quick files access
gwa_set_dir("data/gwa")
## download wind capacity factors for wind-class #1
gwa_get_wind_cf("ISL", IEC = 1)
#> [1] "data/gwa/ISL_capacity_factor_IEC1.tif"
## download wind speed data
ISL <- gwa_get_wind_cf("ISL", IEC = 2) # Iceland
ISL
#> [1] "data/gwa/ISL_capacity_factor_IEC2.tif"

MAR <- gwa_get_wind_speed("MAR", height = 150) # Morocco

## plot data
library(terra)
#> terra 1.7.29
plot(rast(MAR), main = "Morocco, wind speed at 150m height, m/s")

plot(rast(ISL), main = "Iceland, wind capacity factors, class 2")

References

https://globalwindatlas.info/download/gis-files (files to download)

https://energyrt.github.io/globalwindatlas/index.html (documentation)