Recent improvements in the E-OBS gridded  data set for daily mean wind speed over  Europe in the period 1980–2021

de Baar, Jouke H. S.; Nhat Luu, Linh; van der Schrier, Gerard; van den Besselaar, Else J. M.; Garcia-Marti, Irene

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-20-91-2023

Articles | Volume 20

https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-20-91-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-20-91-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20

23 Aug 2023

| 23 Aug 2023

Recent improvements in the E-OBS gridded data set for daily mean wind speed over Europe in the period 1980–2021

Jouke H. S. de Baar, Linh Nhat Luu, Gerard van der Schrier, Else J. M. van den Besselaar, and Irene Garcia-Marti

Data sets

E-OBS daily gridded meteorological data for Europe from 1950 to present derived from in-situ observations Copernicus Climate Change Service https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.151d3ec6

Model code and software

ECA-D/windgrid: E-OBS wind (Version ems2022) jdebaar https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8189422

Short summary

In this work, we present the most recent updates in the E-OBS gridded data set for daily mean wind speed over Europe. The data set is provided as an ensemble of equally likely realisations. In addition, we make a preliminary study into possible causes of the observed terrestrial wind stilling effect, such as local changes in surface roughness length. As one of the results, we do observe a terrestrial wind stilling effect, however, the trend varies locally over Europe.