Publications

KNMI reports

User manual

• User manual of the (KNMI North Sea Wind) KNW-atlas
  Version 9: June 2016

  I.L. Wijnant, A . Stepek, M. Savenije and H.W. van den Brink

Technical reports

• Validation of KNW atlas with publicly available mast observations (Phase 3 of KNW project)

  April 2015

  A. Stepek, M. Savenije, H.W. van den Brink and I.L. Wijnant

• Validation of KNW atlas with scatterometer winds (Phase 3 of KNW project)

  April 2015

  I.L. Wijnant, G.J. Marseille, A. Stoffelen, H.W. van den Brink and A. Stepek

• North Sea Wind Climatology. Part 1: a review of existing wind atlases

  June 2014

  I.L. Wijnant, H.W. van den Brink and A. Stepek

• North Sea Wind Climatology. Part 2: ERA-Interim and Harmonie model data

  June 2014

  I.L. Wijnant, H.W. van den Brink and A. Stepek

Scientific reports

• Inter-annual wind speed variability on the North Sea

  12 June 2017

  R.J. Ronda, I.L. Wijnant and A. Stepek

• (Dutch) Klimatologie van extreme windvlagen

  1 juni 2017

  H.W. van den Brink, I.L. Wijnant, F. Bosveld and A. Stepek

• An effective parametrization of gust profiles during severe wind conditions

  28 November 2019

  H.W. van den Brink

KNW-atlas extended until August 2019

• Dutch Offshore Wind Atlas (DOWA)

  June 2017

  ECN part of TNO, Whiffle and KNMI

Other related research reports

Ecofys

• Borssele Offshore Wind Farm Zone - Wind Resource Assessment

  18 September 2015

  A. Crockford, H. Pater and E. Holtslag

EWEA

• Mesoscale models benchmarking exercise

  Spring 2015

  KNMI in collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark