Wind and power density data of strategic offshore locations in the Colombian Caribbean coast

The high potential of wind speed in the Colombian Caribbean coast is an opportunity to develop offshore wind energy technology. This article contains the wind speed and wind power density in four strategic locations in Colombia (Cartagena, Barranquilla, Santa Marta and La Guajira) at different eleva...

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Autores: Rueda-Bayona, Juan Gabriel, Guzmán, Andrés, Cabello Eras, Juan José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Colombia
Institución:Corporación Universidad de la Costa
Repositorio:Repositorio REDICUC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/7462
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11323/7462
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104720
https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Wind energy
Offshore
Renewable energy
Colombia
Wind turbines
Wind power
Wind speed
Wind velocity
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Sumario:The high potential of wind speed in the Colombian Caribbean coast is an opportunity to develop offshore wind energy technology. This article contains the wind speed and wind power density in four strategic locations in Colombia (Cartagena, Barranquilla, Santa Marta and La Guajira) at different elevations. The dataset from this study is related to the research paper “Renewables energies in Colombia and the opportunity for the offshore wind technology published in Journal of Cleaner Production (Rueda-Bayona et al.) [1]. Reading and processing numerous files stored in databases could be challenging because it demands software programming to do so, what could difficult the access to valuable data for the community. Also, high compressed files such as NetCDF formats demand specialised software which is not easy obtaining and utilising because it requires skills in a programming language. Then, this study used the NARR-NOAA database [2] and generated local wind and power density data stored in Excel sheets to ease their utilisation.