data_wind_de {SEI}

Time series of average wind speed in Germany

Description

This dataset contains a daily time series of average wind speeds across Germany between 1979 and 2019.

Usage

data("data_wind_de")

Format

An object of type data.frame containing 2 variables:

date

A POSIXct series of times at which average wind speeds are available.

wsmean

The average wind speed in Germany for the corresponding time.

Details

The dataframe data_wind_de contains 14975 (365 x 41 + 10) rows, containing the daily average wind speed in Germany for 41 years between 1979 and 2019. Ten leap years occur within this period.

This corresponds to a subset of the data that is publicly available at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-pressure-levels?tab=overview. Users are referred to the reference below for further details.

References

Hersbach, H et al. (2023): ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1940 to present. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS) doi:10.24381/cds.adbb2d47 Accessed 01-09-2022.

Examples

data("wind_de")