WAsP (Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program) is a Windows program for predicting wind climates, wind resources, and energy yields from wind turbines and wind farms. An application of the software is determining good locations to develop wind farms.[1]
The predictions are based on wind data measured at meteorological stations in the same region, or on generalised wind climates derived from mesoscale model results. The program includes a complex terrain flow model, a roughness change model, a model for sheltering obstacles, a wind turbine wake model and a model for the average atmospheric stability conditions at the site. The software package further contains a Climate Analyst for creating the wind-climatological inputs, a Map Editor for creating and editing the topographical inputs, and a Turbine Editor for creating the wind turbine inputs to WAsP. The fundamentals of WAsP and the wind atlas methodology are described in the European Wind Atlas.[2] WAsP is developed and distributed by DTU Wind and Energy Systems at the Technical University of Denmark, Denmark. Current version is WAsP 12.7.
WAsP is used for:[3]
Wind farm production
Wind farm efficiency
Micro-siting of wind turbines
Power production calculations
Wind resource mapping
Wind climate estimation
Wind atlas generation
Wind data analysis
A special implementation of the WAsP software has been used to map the wind climate of the entire world with a resolution of 250 m, see the Global Wind Atlas.
^Sveinbjornsson, Stefan Kari (25 July 2013). "Analysis of WAsP (Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program) in complex topographical conditions using measured production from a large scale wind farm". University of Washington. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^"European Wind Atlas". Retrieved 31 December 2016.
^"WAsP home page, DTU Wind Energy". Retrieved 31 December 2016.
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