New features in Meteodyn WT 4.

5
March 2013

Release information
New input formats for topography data Improvement of the input data process New overlapping tool New smoothing tool Improvement in the Statistical graphics tools

Release information
New input formats for topography data Improvement of the input data process New overlapping tool New smoothing tool Improvement in the Statistical graphics tools

New formats
New input formats for topography data
Shape file for topography (orography and roughness) Color Tiff file for roughness Available formats in Meteodyn WT Orography: map, xyz, dxf, shp Roughness: map, xyz, chm, shp, tiff/tif Topography: map
Pre loaded database available for roughness value(Corine Land Cover for Europe, NLCD for US, )

SHAPE in practice
A *.shp file is a vector data format describing geometries like points, polylines or polygones which contain different types of information. Mandatory files related to shape file: - SHP: shape format geometry - SHX: shape index format > a positional index of the feature geometry to allow seeking forwards and backwards quickly. - DBF: attribute format
When using a shp file it is necessary to have the .DBF and .SHX files associated with your shape file in the same folder.

SHAPE in practice
Orography
The user is able to specify a new attribute for elevation data

SHAPE in practice
Roughness

SHAPE in practice
Roughness

Roughness length code available database

CLC Corine Land Cover Europe Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Serbia 100m resolution

LULC

5m resolution

NLCD

National Land Cover Database US and Puerto Rico

30m resolution

TIFF in practice
TIFF COLOR Not TIFF index (in progress)

Automatically deduced from the file

Available database : CLC, NLCD, UCL + User database

TIFF in practice
In case of user database:
Roughness length

New formats: in practice

In progress: Global roughness database with a resolution of around 300 meters Generated by ESA(European Spatial Agency)

Release information
New input formats for topography data Improvement of the input data process New overlapping tool New smoothing tool Improvement in the Statistical graphics tools

Input data process

Roughness and elevation data process is now optimized save and check faster Display faster view of the site Mesh and global computation faster
Time reduced by a factor of 3 to 5 thanks to improvements and optimization in the code of the software

Input data process

Example for 5 sites
Site Name Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 Site 5 Characteristics Semi complex and forested terrain Complex and forested terrain Coastal area Complex and forested area Coastal area Radius (m) 4,000 6,000 9,500 5,000 15,000

Release information
New input formats for topography data Improvement of the input data process New overlapping tool New smoothing tool Improvement in the Statistical graphics tools

Overlapping tool
Before: it was possible to overlap several files but was not adapted to customers problematic The idea is to have the possibility to define two neighboring forested zones with different densities

Overlapping parameters:
By default, grid resolution = 25 m What kind of files can be overlapped? Only files that have the same format (extension) For orography: No process on data files A large file is created: merge of the different orographic files For roughness: Hierarchy in the files in the site windows

Overlapping tool
Example of roughness maps map format roughness11.map roughness3.map

Overlapping tool
Example of roughness maps map format

Overlapping tool
Example of roughness maps shape format Shp1_1.shp Shp1_2.shp

312 Rugo = 0,7

211 Rugo = 0,06

No information outside the blue lines

Shp1_3.shp

324 Rugo = 0,35

No information inside and outside the pink lines

Overlapping tool
Example of roughness maps shape format

Overlapping tool
Example of roughness maps shape format

Release information
New input formats for topography data Improvement of the input data process New overlapping tool New smoothing tool Improvement in the Statistical graphics tools

Smoothing tool
The smoothing can be activated by the user in case of divergence problem due to hilly areas

In case the user is sure that the divergence comes from sharp elevation data, smoothing is the first thing to try to avoid divergence

Better convergence rate in case of very sharp elevation data

Smoothing tool
1. Smoothing of the 4 boundaries 2. Propagation of the smoothing until the radius is reached 3. At the radius distance, there is no smoothing

Do not use this option for small sites (less than 10 km for radius)

Smoothing tool
Results on a complex site more than 900m difference in elevation for a radius domain of 12 km Convergence rate obtained with / without smoothing tool

Release information
New input formats for topography data Improvement of the input data process New overlapping tool New smoothing tool Improvement in the Statistical graphics tools

Statistical graphics tools

More information on Weibull parameters directly available in this window Useful for customers who work with other software (windpro / windfarmer/ ) These software use Weibull parameter for production estimation

Statistical graphics tools

Example for a directional display