This dataset contains historical and forecast weather data for Texas and North America. The historical data starts from 1940 and extends to almost present (5 days from current date). The list of weather values include, temperture, dew point, wind speed, wind direction, wind speed at 100m, cloud cover, global horizontal irradiance, and direct horizontal irradance for a 0.25 degree latitude and longitude grid across much of North America.
Please contact Thomas Overbye (overbye@tamu.edu) or Farnaz Safdarian (fsafdarian@tamu.edu) for any questions regarding this data.
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References
If you use these datasets in publications, please cite the following papers, and acknowledge the ERA5 data as described below:
T. J. Overbye, F. Safdarian, W. Trinh, Z. Mao, J. Snodgrass, and J. Yeo, “An Approach for the Direct Inclusion of Weather Information in the Power Flow,” Proc. 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 2023.
F. Safdarian, M. Stevens, J. Snodgrass, T. J. Overbye, “Detailed Hourly Weather Measurements for Power System Applications,” 2024 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, Feb. 2024.
Hersbach, H., Bell, B., Berrisford, P., Biavati, G., Horányi, A., Muñoz Sabater, J., Nicolas, J., Peubey, C., Radu, R., Rozum, I., Schepers, D., Simmons, A., Soci, C., Dee, D., Thépaut, J-N. (2023): ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1940 to present. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS), DOI: 10.24381/cds.adbb2d47 (Accessed on 23-01-2024)
Please refer to How to acknowledge, cite and reference data published on the Climate Data Store for complete details on citing the ERA5 data.