Blog / fiction is the new reality (II) An observation means nothing unless it can be explained by simulations. The above (quite provocative) statement was recently made by an astrophysicist with 28,561 citations and an h-index of 68 at a Congress of Slovenian Physicists (quote courtesy of Mark Zagar from Vestas). Of course, the reverse …
Blog / fiction is the new reality Both measurements and model results are only ‘pieces of the puzzle’ that help us understand atmospheric behavior. Obviously, the title of this article is a joke but it came to mind after a couple of recent experiences shared with us by Vortex customers. It was funny that, when …
Blog / An Introduction to Geographic Coordinates Nowadays, anybody with a smartphone can find their exact position with just one click. Any location is determined by a specific pairing of latitude and longitude in a Cartesian coordinate ellipsoid-based grid.The actual shape of the Earth is an irregular figure called a geoid but it can be …
Blog / OPEN SOURCE AT VORTEX Vortex uses 99.9% open source as it has proven to be the best path to take at each junction along the way. When we first started calculating wind data back in 2005, we had to choose a mesoscale weather forecasting model that could make our mission possible. Our expertise …
Blog / limitations of models and measurements Since both measurements and models have their limitations, a smart combination of measuring and modelling has become common practice in the Wind & Site community nowadays. “The biggest issue with wind maps seems to be a misunderstanding of their limitations by users, leading to bad decision-making”, says Ioannis …
Blog / A picture is worth a thousand words. A film, a million. Or why we believe that time-series will soon be the default format in wind resource assessment… I’ll try to explain here why we believe that near-future resource assessment analysis will be based on time-series formats instead of on wind distributions as is …
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