Please check the reports published by the International Energy Agency (IEA). You can visit the following URL and search for the report on land surface wind.

www.iea.org

Hope this helps answer your question.

Professor Yehia Khalil, Yale University, USA

Fellow of the University of Oxford, UK

TYVM ! However, I am looking for actual wind data, not reports. I need these data to use in spatial queries (GIS technology) and subsequent data analysis.

I was thinking of modelled data, predicted at the pixel level over continents. Such data are available for sea sueface winds (direction and speed). I wonder whether there are equivalent products for land surface winds.

Hiya R

I think climexp.nl has some.  Cant remember exactly what.  Possibilities include gust, mean speed, direction, height above ground. Low resolution i think.  Will have to find out for pale blu,  so will try to find out more in the next few days.  Els might know from her btv stuff.

W

Bonjour Renaud

10m winds from ERAINTERIM reanalysis

http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim-full-daily/levtype=sfc/

0.75x0.75 degree - gridded over the globe and Europe. Daily and sub-daily data is available. The daily data extraction is tricky though (due to start date). On the climate data side it's surely one of the best product available (it is used to prescribe boundary conditions for mesoscale models etc).  Model mixed with observation data using assimilation method

Best wishes

Cyril

@Moshen: thank you, I will check again. Not easy to find the way on IAEA website !

@Willy: thank you, I guess I found something at http://www.ecmwf.int/ but I need to register to access the data. It takes some time: I'let you know.

@Cyril Merci ! It looks promising. It might be the same data set Willy was thinking of.

Thank you to all of you !

Renaud

You may want to check this CM SAF dataset:

SWS - Near surface wind speed

https://wui.cmsaf.eu/safira/action/viewProduktDetails?id=19044 

Update: sorry, that's oceans-only!

Thanks Markus. Hope you're doing well.

Hello, everyone.

I was looking for similar data.

CMSAF offers data only over oceans.

In general, gridded data are given in low resolution  0.75degree.ERAinterim is the most accessible.

So I'm also interested if anyone knows some sources in higher resolution

Thanks !

Dear Renaud Lancelot,

The actual surface wind data can be found in the GTS (Global Telecommunication System) of WMO (World Meteorological Organization) for Region 6 (Europe). There are hourly (synoptic) surface wind data in SYNOP reports for hundreds of synoptic/meteorological stations. These data receive all member countries of WMO through its specialized state meteorological agency. Agency of your state must have this wind data.

Regards,

Milivoj B. Gavrilov

ERA-Interim dataset is the most popular one. 

Thanks ! I found there what I needed.