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Subject:        Canadian Wind Energy Atlas
Date:   Tue, 6 Dec 2005
 forwarded From:        Richard Pinnell <[log in to unmask]>
forwarded from:         CARTA-L : Canadian Map & GIS Libraries and Archives
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Folks

Possible interest
 http://www.windatlas.ca/en/index.php

Not only can you view detailed maps of Canada showing wind rose and speed
for any location, but you can download GIS data.

Apologies if this is old news for some of you.

I quote below from the toplevel page:

  Richard

Environment Canada's Wind Energy Atlas web site aims at developing new
meteorological tools to be used by Canada's wind energy industry. It offers
the possibility to browse through the results of the numerical simulations
that were run on the Canadian territory in order to determine its wind
energy potential. Consultants and the general public will find here valuable
data about this promosing renewable energy.

This site features  <http://www.windatlas.ca/en/maps.php> colour maps
representing the average wind velocity and power on the whole country, as
well as corresponding geophysical characteristics, all available in an easy
to use browsing interface that allows you to go quickly to the heart of the
meteorological data.

Also offered are an overview of the
<http://www.windatlas.ca/en/methodology.php> methodology used to generate
the different simulation maps, and a
<http://www.windatlas.ca/en/download.php> download section where data files
can be obtained in case you would like to run custom simulations.

The Canadian Wind Energy Atlas is a contribution from the
<http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/science/rpn/eole/eole/index_en.html> EOLE
Project, a research project hosted by
<http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/science/rpn/general/en/index.html>
Environment Canada (RPN) and initiated in year 2000.








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