The Global Wind Atlas helps policymakers, planners, and investors identify high-wind areas for wind power generation virtually anywhere in the world

• Global onshore coverage
• Offshore coverage up to 200 km from the shoreline
• Wind resource mapping at 250 m horizontal grid spacing
• Wind resource mapping at 10, 50, 100, 150 and 200 m above ground/sea level

The Global Wind Atlas helps policymakers and investors perform preliminary calculations

• Users can assess the wind resource at a point, over a custom area, or within a country or first adminstrative unit (state/province/etc.)
• Users can assess the variability of wind resource by year, month, and hour

The Global Wind Atlas facilitates online queries and provides downloadable datasets based on the latest input data and modeling methodologies

• Users can access the latest data, tools, and methodologies
• Users can download GIS data for all layers at a point, in a custom area, or within a country or first adminstrative unit
• Users can download WAsP LIB files

The Global Wind Atlas allows users to download high-resolution maps showing global, country, and first adminstrative unit wind resources

• Mean wind speed and mean wind power density maps for the world and a selection of countries and first adminstrative units can be downloaded as high-resolution maps in PNG and PDF format
• The map generation tool provides on-the-fly generation of customized maps of capacity factor, mean wind power density, mean wind speed, orography and roughness length, in PDF format
• The energy yield calculator tool allows users to assess the energy yield of a generic or custom wind turbine by creating downloadable GIS-data for annual energy production, capacity factor, or full load hours

The Global Wind Atlas is validated

• Validation is an ongoing task that uses data from ESMAP-funded measurement campaigns and other public high-quality wind data
• Validation has currently been performed using data from ESMAP-funded measurement campaigns implemented by the World Bank in Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, and Zambia

The Global Wind Atlas is free for all users

• Free access to all the latest data, tools and methodologies
• Major improvements and upgrades planned to the data and the tools available