Dataset Open Access
EOOffshore: Sentinel-1 Wind Data for the Irish Continental Shelf Region
O'Callaghan, Derek;
McBreen, Sheila
EOOffshore is a Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) funded project, which commenced in June 2020 in the School of Physics in University College Dublin (UCD). It presents a case study that demonstrates the utility of the Pangeo software ecosystem in the development of offshore wind speed and power density estimates, increasing wind measurement coverage of offshore renewable energy assessment areas in the Irish Continental Shelf (ICS) region. It has involved the creation of a new wind data catalog for this region, consisting of a collection of analysis-ready, cloud-optimized (ARCO) datasets featuring up to 21 years of available in situ, reanalysis, and satellite observation wind data products.
The European Union Copernicus Earth Observation (EO) programme and services are based on data collected from EO satellites, in particular, the Sentinel satellite missions. This includes the Sentinel-1 mission, which consists of C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging satellites in polar orbit. One of its main objectives is the provision of ocean monitoring services, where its Level-2 Ocean (OCN) products include an Ocean WInd field (OWI) component. This provides gridded estimates of wind speed and direction at 10 m above the surface, with a typical spatial resolution of 1 km. This particular catalog data set (eooffshore_ics_level3_sentinel1_ocn.zarr.tar.gz) contains 2015-2021 OCN wind products for the ICS region, which were retrieved from the Copernicus Open Access Hub (COAH) and the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF). The data set was used in the EOOffshore project outputs presented (Scalable Offshore Wind Analysis With Pangeo) at the Meeting Exascale Computing Challenges with Compression and Pangeo 2022 EGU General Assembly session.
Description and example usage of the Sentinel-1 data set in EOOffshore:
- Sentinel-1 Wind Data for Irish Continental Shelf region
- Offshore Wind in Irish Areas Of Interest
- Comparison of Offshore Wind Speed Extrapolation and Power Density Estimation
As requested by the Legal Notice on the use of Copernicus Sentinel Data and Service Information, this data set:
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2015 - 2021]
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| Views | 76 | 76 |
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| Data volume | 2.2 GB | 2.2 GB |
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| Unique downloads | 3 | 3 |
- Publication date:
- August 8, 2022
- DOI:
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- Keyword(s):
- EOOffshore offshore wind renewable energy Ireland SEAI Sentinel-1 Copernicus Pangeo Zarr
- Meeting:
- EGU General Assembly 2022 (EGU22), Vienna, Austria & Online, 23-27 May 2022 (Session ESSI2.7, Part 7)
- Related identifiers:
- Supplement to
- 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-2746 (Conference paper)
- Communities:
- License (for files):
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International