{"id":30172,"date":"2024-08-26T21:27:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T19:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/coordinate-system-for-nrel-wind-resource-database\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T21:27:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T19:27:19","slug":"coordinate-system-for-nrel-wind-resource-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/coordinate-system-for-nrel-wind-resource-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Coordinate System For NREL Wind Resource Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I&#8217;m working with geospatial windspeed data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/wrdb.nrel.gov\/data-viewer\">NREL Wind Resource Database<\/a>, but it&#8217;s not clear what coordinate reference system is being used. I found on their <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/NREL\/hsds-examples\/blob\/master\/datasets\/wtk-us.md\">GitHub<\/a> that they use a &#8220;modified Lambert-conic&#8221; system, but none of the various Lambert-conic EPSGs or PROJ strings I&#8217;ve found online seem to be correct. <\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know how I can find out what&#8217;s the exact CRS they used? Thanks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Broseph729\"> \/u\/Broseph729 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1f1w28m\/coordinate_system_for_nrel_wind_resource_database\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1f1w28m\/coordinate_system_for_nrel_wind_resource_database\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-30172 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='30172' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-30172 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-30172 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working with geospatial windspeed data from the NREL Wind Resource Database, but it&#8217;s not clear what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}