Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States
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List of Tables
Chapter 1
1-1 Classes of wind power density at 10m and 50m
1-2 Comparison of annual average wind power at three sites with identical wind speeds
Appendix A
A-1 Titles and report numbers for regional wind atlases
A-2 Prinicipal sources of wind data
A-3 Number of stations with wind data in the United States (and peripheral areas) identified and screened from each source
A-4 Stations with wind data identified and screened in each of the 12 regional assessments
A-5 Rating of the various formats of summarized wind data available from NCDC
A-6 Number of surface stations wind data utilzed from each source in the 12 regional wind energy atlases
A-7 Summary of wind data evaluation methods employed, and qualitative indicators of wind resource utilized in each of the 12 regional wind energy atlases
A-8 Classes of wind power density at 10m (33 ft) and 50m (164 ft)
A-9 Land surface form terrain features representative of exposed locations
Appendix B
B-1 Microfiche tables
Appendix C
C-1 Wind data from 973 stations in National Climatic Data Center
Appendix D
D-1 Major sources of new data and number of sites used in the analysis after final screening
D-2 Number of new sites at which the estimated wind resource and at which the measured wind resource was in the given wind power class
D-3 Number of sites for which the difference in wind power class (measured-estimated) was a given amount
D-4 Distribution of the number of new sites by measured wind power class and the difference in wind power class (measured minus estimated)
D-5 Distribution of the number of new sites by actual wind power class and the difference between the actual and the Rayleigh-computed power class
D-6 Distribution of the number of new sites by the difference between the actual and estimated power at 50m (164 ft) above ground
Appendix E
E-1 U.S. Department of Energy candidate wind turbine sites
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