WHOI_MetOcean_Nantucket

WHOI MetOcean Nantucket Data Initiative

This data was collected by Kirincich and Cinquino as part of a Metocean monitoring campaign sponsored by the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium (NOWRDC). The campaign was designed to observe key atmospheric parameters at a land based site in the proximity of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Wind Energy Areas for one year. This is part of a longer term effort to collect atmospheric and oceanic data at an existing offshore platform in the vicinity, which can be found here: WHOI_MetOcean.

The campaign supported the purchase and installation of a LIDAR wind profiler at the Nantucket Test Site (NTS). This instrument was installed and operated by WHOI and validated by UL-AWS Truepower following a MetOcean Measurement Plan created by UL-AWST, WHOI, and NOWRDC. The LIDAR was installed at the NTS in November 2021 and operated continuously, as possible, through the end of 2024. The lidar was removed for service and tall tower validation from 4-24-2023 to 10-23-2023.

A LEOSPHERE WINDCUBE v2 was acquired from NRG Systems and deployed at the NTS after a previous deployment at WHOI's offshore Air Sea Interaction Tower (ASIT). The WIND-CUBE instrument is an industry approved LIDAR system for use in Wind Energy Resource Characterization studies. The choice of sensor was made in consultation with UL-AWS Truepower, the wind energy consultant advising MassCEC on its MetOcean Initiative. The lidar, serial number WLS7-436, was a leased model owned by NRG, the U.S. distributor for Leosphere. The instrument was installed at ground level in an open area and leveled following LEOSPHERE standards. A commissioning report for the lidar deployment are included as part of this repository.

Authors: Anthony Kirincich and Eve Cinquino

Citable URI:https://hdl.handle.net/1912/29667

DOI: 10.26025/1912/29667

Related Dataset:https://hdl.handle.net/1912/27014

The following data and metadata is available for download below:

• Commissioning Report
• Raw Lidar Data
• Summary Lidar Data (10 min averages)

Lidar Metadata and Validation Reports

• Lidar Metadata Nantucket 2023
• Remote Sensing Device Verification Report WLS7_A_2-May-2023
• Lidar Metadata Nantucket 2021
• CUL Commissioning form WLS7_436_CF2

Lidar Summary Data: Daily 10-minute average files from 53-200m amsl (daily files in the Leosphere WindCube files in .sta format)

• 2021 (5.499Mb)
• 2022 (31.80Mb)
• 2023 (6.96Mb)
• 2024 (28.28Mb)

Lidar Raw Data: Raw 10-minute files of 1 Hz data files from 53-200m amsl (served in quarterly zipped files)

• October-December 2021 (569.3Mb)
• January-March 2022 (1.010GB)
• April-June 2022 (856.5Mb)
• July-September 2022 (1022.Mb)
• October-December 2022 (545.6Mb)
• January-March 2023 (86.63Mb)
• April-June 2023 (1.05GB)
• October-December 2023 (2.4GB)
• January-March 2024 (4.47GB)
• April-June 2024 (4.25GB)
• July-September 2024 (4.26GB)
• October-December 2024 (4.67GB)