f807d70d-9224-4ef7-8514-b5394c8daae8 English series series 2026-03-17T16:22:02 MEDIN 3.1.2 climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere Wind strength and direction SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2023-12-12 revision Research The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Phases 2012-05-15 revision Research and Development Activity The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Areas 2012-05-15 revision Permanent instruments The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Areas 2012-05-15 revision Environmental monitoring facilities GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision Hydrography GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision SeaDataNet sea areas 2012-11-07 revision North Sea SeaDataNet sea areas 2012-11-07 revision English Channel SeaDataNet sea areas 2012-11-07 revision Celtic Sea SeaDataNet sea areas 2012-11-07 revision Irish Sea and St. George's Channel SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision water column skin SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision water column SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision water column boundary layer 2014-11-10T00:00:00 2014-11-10T23:59:59 -7.5 3 49 58 TCE-2377 Marine Data Exchange 2014, The Crown Estate, Wind Enabling Actions, UK MERRA Validation With Offshore Meteorological Data Study UK MERRA Validation With Offshore Meteorological Data Study 2021-05-17T14:14:48 publication English The UK MERRA offshore validation study was undertaken to gain fresh insight into the extent to which reanalysis (Modern‐Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, referred to as MERRA) data could be used in support of, or in some cases in substitution for, meteorological data gathered by offshore masts. The study demonstrates the value of the amalgamation of offshore data by The Crown Estate. By studying the database of offshore meteorological data, The Crown Estate has discovered a number of findings, which include suggestions for further work in order to reduce uncertainty and improve modelling. The offshore wind industry and those providing technical support to it are invited to consider the findings, including the requirement for, and priority of, future work. There will be no limitations when published on the Marine Data Exchange otherRestrictions Data Must be used in accordance to the Marine Data Exchange's Terms of Use: https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/content/info/terms-of-use otherRestrictions The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk custodian The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk originator The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk distributor The Crown Estate 02078515000 enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk owner notPlanned Documents https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/TCE-2377/summary A link to the web service or dataset. https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk A link to the general host site. Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08T00:00:00 publication Conformity with the Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 was either not relevant to this dataset or not a requirement of the Marine Data Exchange for the creation and submission of this dataset; therefore, conformity has not been assessed and cannot be declared False series The MERRA model provides a variety of statistics but the outputs of interest for the study are the wind speed and wind direction variables available at 10m and 50m heights. The output data is produced at a temporal resolution of 1‐hour and a spatial resolution of 1/2 degrees latitude by 2/3 degrees longitude. The hourly data from the nearest MERRA node to each meteorological mast was acquired from NASA and processed for the analysis in this report. The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk pointOfContact EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2022-11-29 revision WGS 84