WHOI_MetOcean

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WHOI MetOcean Data Initiative

This data was collected by Kirincich and Cinquino as part of a Metocean monitoring campaign sponsored initially by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) and presently by the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium (NOWRDC). The campaign was designed to observe key atmospheric and ocean parameters at an existing offshore platform in the proximity of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Wind Energy Areas. The campaign supported the purchase and installation of a LIDAR wind profiler, two cup anemometers and a wind direction vane at the MVCO Air-Sea Interaction Tower (ASIT). These instruments were installed and operated by WHOI and validated by UL-AWS Truepower following a MetOcean Measurement Plan created by UL-AWST, WHOI, and the MassCEC. All instruments were installed on WHOI's offshore tower in the fall of 2016 and operated continuously, as possible, through the end of 2020. After this time the project transitioned to become the MetOcean Reference Site (MORS-1), supported by the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium (NOWRDC). In fall 2021, a second UL-AWS Truepower validated LIDAR wind profiler was purchased and installed at WHOI's offshore tower. After a validation period, the original lidar was moved to a secondary land based site in Nantucket, MA. Please see WHOI_MetOcean_Nantucket for the Nantucket data: https://hdl.handle.net/1912/29667.

LEOSPHERE WINDCUBE v2 was acquired from NRG Systems and deployed at WHOI's Air Sea Interaction Tower (ASIT). The WINDCUBE 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 the platform level of the tower along an existing walkway that extends to the southwest, into the prevailing summer time wind direction relative to the center of the tower structure. The lidar connects directly to the ASIT's power and communications systems. Two separate deployments of the lidar were made as part of the study period. The first deployment spanned Oct. 7, 2016 to Dec. 28, 2018. The second deployment spanned Oct. 20, 2019 to Oct. 7, 2021. During the campaign period, the lidar was validated three times by NRG and once against an approved Tall Tower (see validation information). In 2021, a second wind profiling lidar was acquired from NRG Systems. After discussion with wind industry professionals and manufacturers, the decision was made to purchase a Zephir Ltd. ZX 300M Lidar. This lidar was tall tower validated (see validation information), and then deployed at the ASIT, next to the existing Leosphere Windcube. After a comparison period (see comparison report), the Windcube was relocated to a secondary land based site in Nantucket, MA. Data from both instruments is included in this repository. One deployment of the metocean sensors on the ASIT was made, spanning Nov. 2016 to present. Data from the two cup anemometers (at 26m amsl) and single wind direction vane (at 23m amsl) were combined with additional sensor data of air temperature, pressure, and Relative humidity (at 18m amsl) and ocean temperature and salinity (at 4m bmsl). These additional data were collected by various sensors and were maintained by WHOI or other ASIT users. Commissioning reports for both of the lidar deployments and the metocean sensors are included as part of this repository. See below or the commissioning reports for details of the sensors and sensor orientations, which differed between deployments.

Authors: Anthony Kirincich and Eve Cinquino

Citable URI:https://hdl.handle.net/1912/27014

DOI: 10.26025/1912/27014

The following data and metadata is available for download below:

  • Validation reports from a tall tower validation that was performed in August-September 2019.
  • Validation reports from a tall tower validation that was performed in May-July 2021.
  • Meteorological Tower Summary Data: Daily 10-minute average files of wind speed (23m amsl), wind direction (26m amsl), temperature, pressure, and relative humidity (18m amsl) and ocean temperature and salinity (4m bmsl).
  • Meteorological Tower Metadata: Metadata containing file headers, sensor information, and documentation of repairs.
  • Realtime, combined Lidar and Meteorological Tower Data, Quality Controlled and reformatted by AWS/UL: These data are the result of realtime data collection of files transmitted daily to AWS/UL, who performed QC analyses of the data and combined all data into a single *.xls file for each deployment month.

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

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

Lidar Metadata and Validation Reports

Meteorological Tower Summary Data (daily files in ascii text format)

Meteorological Tower Metadata and Summary Plots

Combined Lidar and Meteorological Tower Data, quality controlled and reformatted by AWS/UL (files in .xls format)

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  • Dataset
    Meteorological tower daily data 2022
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2022) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    Meteorological tower daily data for 2022
  • Dataset
    Meteorological tower monthly summary data for 2022
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2022) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    Meteorological tower monthly summary data for 2022
  • Dataset
    October-December 2022 Lidar raw data
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2022) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    This zipped content contains Lidar raw data: Raw 10-minute files of 1 Hz data files from 53-200m amsl from October-December 2022.
  • Dataset
    July-September 2022 Lidar raw data
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2022) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    This zipped content contains Lidar raw data: Raw 10-minute files of 1 Hz data files from 53-200m amsl from July-September 2022.
  • Dataset
    April-June 2022 Lidar raw data
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2022) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    This zipped content contains Lidar raw data: Raw 10-minute files of 1 Hz data files from 53-200m amsl from April-June 2022.
  • Dataset
    January-March 2022 Lidar raw data
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2022) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    This zipped content contains Lidar raw data: Raw 10-minute files of 1 Hz data files from 53-200m amsl from January-March 2022.
  • Dataset
    2022 Lidar summary data
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2022) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    This zipped content contains Lidar summary data: Daily 10-minute average files from 53-200m amsl for 2021.
  • Other
    Commissioning form: Windcube Lidar WHOI ASIT Tower ZX300M 1166
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2021-10-11) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    Unit is located on an Ocean met mast. There is a platform approximately 11 meter off the water line. with another 15 meters of lattice tower above it. The site is approximately 2.75 kilometers off the Southeast coast of Martha’s Vineyard.
  • Dataset
    October-December 2021 Lidar raw data
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2021) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    This zipped content contains Lidar raw data: Raw 10-minute files of 1 Hz data files from 53-200m amsl from October-December 2021.
  • Dataset
    July-September 2021 Lidar raw data
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2021) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    This zipped content contains Lidar raw data: Raw 10-minute files of 1 Hz data files from 53-200m amsl from July-September 2021.
  • Dataset
    April-June 2021 Lidar raw data
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2021) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    This zipped content contains Lidar raw data: Raw 10-minute files of 1 Hz data files from 53-200m amsl from April-June 2021.
  • Dataset
    Meteorological tower daily data 2021
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2021) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    Meteorological tower daily data for 2021
  • Dataset
    Meteorological tower monthly summary data for 2021
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2021) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    Meteorological tower monthly summary data for 2021
  • Other
    Comparison Report between LiDAR unit WLS7-436 and LiDAR unit ZX1166
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2021-11-05) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    This report compares the wind characteristics of Lidar WLS7 436, a Windcube v2.0 lidar, and Lidar ZX1166, a ZX Lidars ZX300M, comprising part of the Met Ocean Reference Station (MORS-1) situated on the Air-Sea Interaction Tower (ASIT) located approximately 3 km south of Martha’s Vineyard in 17-m of water. The ASIT is a cabled, fixed platform that has a maximum height of 23 m above mean sea level (MSL) and a platform located at 13 m MSL. The ASIT operates within the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) facility established in 2001 and is operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Remote sensing data collection commenced at the ASIT in October 2016 with the initial deployment of Lidar WLS7 436 as part of a metocean initiative funded by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC)1. WHOI later established the MORS-1 campaign in 2021. Lidar ZX1166, a calibrated ZX Lidars ZX300M, was deployed to the ASIT platform on 1 September 2021. Lidar WLS7 436 was removed from the platform on 8 October 2021. Site information, a table of concurrent mean wind speeds at each measurement level between 60 m and 200 m, scatterplots of concurrent wind speeds at each measurement level between 60 m and 200 m, wind speed frequency distributions and wind roses at two key measurement levels, and a plot of concurrent wind shear are presented below for the period that the two lidars were present on the ASIT platform. For their concurrent period of record, wind speed and direction data at the same measurement levels agreed closely between the two lidars.
  • Other
    Calibration Report of LiDAR unit ZX1166
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2018-08-18) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    On behalf of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (“WHOI”), UL Services Group LLC (“UL”) conducted a verification1 of a ground-based remote sensing device (“RSD”) according to IEC 61400-12-1 Ed. 2 [1] Annex L. The Lidar ZX 300M was collocated with a 130 m mast at UL’s Advanced Wind Turbine Test Facility at West Texas A&M University, near Canyon, Texas. This report describes the measurement site, the mast and RSD equipment, and the results from the verification. The verification results include the linear regression relationships between wind speed, wind direction, shear, and turbulence intensity for each coincident height.
  • Other
    Meteorological Metadata
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2021-09-13) Kirincich, Anthony R.
    This data was collected by a team led by Kirincich as part of a Metocean monitoring campaign sponsored by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC). The campaign was designed to observe key atmospheric and ocean parameters at an existing offshore platform in the proximity of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Wind Energy Areas. The campaign supported the purchase and installation of a LIDAR wind profiler, two cup anemometers and a wind direction vane at the MVCO Air-Sea Interaction Tower (ASIT). These instruments were installed and operated by WHOI and validated by UL-AWS Truepower following a MetOcean Measurement Plan created by UL-AWST, WHOI, and the MassCEC. All instruments were installed on WHOI's offshore tower in the fall of 2016 and operated continuously, as possible, through the end of 2020. After this time the project transitioned to become the MetOcean Reference Site (MORS-1), supported by the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium (NOWRDC).
  • Other
    Lidar Metadata
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2021-09-13) Kirincich, Anthony R. ; Cinquino, Eve
    This data was collected by a team led by Kirincich as part of a Metocean monitoring campaign sponsored by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC). The campaign was designed to observe key atmospheric and ocean parameters at an existing offshore platform in the proximity of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Wind Energy Areas. The campaign supported the purchase and installation of a LIDAR wind profiler, two cup anemometers and a wind direction vane at the MVCO Air-Sea Interaction Tower (ASIT). These instruments were installed and operated by WHOI and validated by UL-AWS Truepower following a MetOcean Measurement Plan created by UL-AWST, WHOI, and the MassCEC. All instruments were installed on WHOI's offshore tower in the fall of 2016 and operated continuously, as possible, through the end of 2020. After this time the project transitioned to become the MetOcean Reference Site (MORS-1), supported by the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium (NOWRDC).
  • Other
    Commissioning form: Windcube Lidar WHOI ASIT Tower
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2019-10-20) Kirincich, Anthony R.
    The lidar is re-deployed on the south shelf of the ASIT diving board platform. The site is a three legged fixed tower situated 1 NL south of Martha’s Vineyard in 17 m of water.
  • Other
    Commissioning form: Windcube V2 WLS7-436 WHOI ASIT Tower
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2017-03-10) Kirincich, Anthony R.
    Lidar is deployed on the Air Sea Interaction Tower (ASIT) offshore structure owned and operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI); Tower is approximately 2 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, MA. Station has a walking platform at approximately 11 m MSL, with a section of lattice mast that extends from the platform to approximately 21 m MSL. The walking platform has a “diving board” extension oriented southwest, on which the lidar is deployed. The lidar sits upon a work bench mounted outboard of the southeast side of the diving board. Figure 1 illustrates the site configuration Aside from the immediate structure, the closest obstruction is Martha’s vineyard. Open ocean fetch for the southern half of the compass; Site access controlled by WHOI; additional site details attached separately.
  • Other
    Wind resource site commissioning form
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2016-12) Kirincich, Anthony R.
    The WHOI ASIT Tower station located approximately 2 miles southeast of Martha’s Vineyard. The met tower platform sits approximately 11m above the water line, depending on tide level. Site is accessed using a vessel provided by WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution). Tower is maintained by WHOI and WHOI personnel are needed to access tower.