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Canada Wind Energy Atlas ()

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Creator: Environment Canada
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Access: web
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From web site: "Environment Canada's Wind Energy Atlas web site aims at developing new meteorological tools to be used by Canada's wind energy industry. It offers the possibility to browse through the results of the numerical simulations that were run on the Canadian territory in order to determine its wind energy potential. Consultants and the general public will find here valuable data about this promosing renewable energy."
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GIS Data Map Studio Home Page ()

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Creator: USGS (EROS)
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Access: web
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This is a site hosted at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) by the USGS. Here you will find public web map services, and interfaces developed at the center. Many of the public web map services are published on the Geography Network, and some national services are cohosted by ESRI.
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Ontario Wind Atlas ()

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Creator: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
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Wind Resource Information (2005)

Date: 2005
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Datum: Nad 83 CNT
Projection: Geographic
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Access: DVD
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From readme.txt file The data provided in this package was created as an input to the Wind Resource Atlas, a web mapping application for helping users determine the feasibility of developing in wind power. This package contains GIS data that is displayed in the Wind Resource Atlas. There are 10 ASCII grids that provide wind speed and wind power measurements at various heights (10m, 30m, 50m, 80m, and 100m) above ground level. There are also ESRI point shapefiles that contain temporal information (monthly, yearly, extreme months and inter – annually) and wind rose information. All data in this package is in Geographic, Decimal Degrees, Nad 83 CNT. For more information about the wind resource atlas, please visit the web site at http://www.ontariowindatlas.ca/
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Wind Resource Information (2005)

Date: 2005
Creator: Helimax Energy Inc & Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR)
Datum: Nad 83 CNT
Projection: Geographic
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Access: Binder [1]
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From readme.txt file The data provided in this package was created as an input to the Wind Resource Atlas, a web mapping application for helping users determine the feasibility of developing in wind power. This package contains GIS data that is displayed in the Wind Resource Atlas. There are 10 ASCII grids that provide wind speed and wind power measurements at various heights (10m, 30m, 50m, 80m, and 100m) above ground level. There are also ESRI point shapefiles that contain temporal information (monthly, yearly, extreme months and inter - annually) and wind rose information. All data in this package is in Geographic, Decimal Degrees, Nad 83 CNT. For more information about the wind resource atlas, please visit the web site at http://www.ontariowindatlas.ca/
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Wind and Wave Atlas of the Mediterranean Sea (2004)

Date: 2004
Creator: Western European Union
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Access: CD-ROM [335]
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The objective of this atlas and CD is to provide long term wind and wave statistics at specified points of the Mediterranean Sea at about 50 km intervals.
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