Wind speed and direction in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec from 2011 to 2019
Description
This dataset consisting of time series of wind speed and direction in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in Oaxaca, Mexico. It comprises the data from two meteorological stations, one in Salina Cruz and one in Ciudad Ixtepec. The Salina Cruz data contains records from 2011 to 2019 with a sampling frequency of fifteen minutes and 36.6% percentage of missing values. On the other hand, the Ciudad Ixtepec data from 2015 to 2016 has a sampling frequency of one hour and 10.3% missing values. This dataset can be used to calculate the wind energy potential at the monitoring locations of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. In addition, it can be used to test the performance of different data imputation methods, and test the validity of forecasting models.
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Steps to reproduce
The dataset Ixtepec-SalinaCruz_2015-2016_1hour.csv contains 17,520 records, and the columns in the file are as follows: - yyyy: year - mm: month - dd: day of the month - hr: hour - SalinaCruz_direction: the angle of wind direction expressed in degrees - SalinaCruz_speed: the wind speed in KnoTs (miles per hour) - Ixtepec_direction: the angle of wind direction expressed in degrees - Ixtepec_speed: the wind speed in KnoTs (miles per hour) The dataset SalinaCruz_2011-2019_15minutes.csv contains 315,560 records, its columns are: - yyyy: year - mm: month - dd: day of the month - hr: hour - WD: the angle of wind direction expressed in degrees - WDK: the angle of the strong gusts wind direction expressed in degrees - WS: the wind speed in KnoTs (miles per hour) - WSK: the strong gusts of wind speed in Knots (miles per hour)