European Erosion Risk Atlas for Wind Turbines

This repo contains the European Erosion Risk Atlas tool that was developed under the scope of the AIRE project. The atlas should be used qualitatively, as the exact erosion onset time depends on many factors that are not all considered in this work.

Meteorological information was obtained from the mesoscale WRF model, while damage estimates were computed using blade damage models from DTU and Fraunhofer IWES. Three turbines of different sizes (IEA 15MW, DTU 10MW and NREL 5MW) and one coating material has been considered. Reference documentation containing more details will be made available soon.

Contents - .png: Figures of the atlas layers - .nc: Final atlas files saved in netCDF files - extraction.py: Simple python script to extract single point or polygon from the *.nc files.

Acknowledgements This work is done as part of AIRE project which is funded under the EU Programe Horizon Europe. Grant Agreement 101083716. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. The WRF simulations were performed at the HPC cluster MOUSE (grant no. 03EE3067), located at the University of Oldenburg (Germany), funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie) due to a decision of the German Bundestag.

Disclaimer This dataset is provided for informational and research purposes only. The authors accept no responsibility or liability for any commercial decisions made on the basis of the dataset, or for any resulting losses, damages, or other consequences.