User:Grace7474./Wind atlas

A wind atlas contains data on the wind speed and wind direction in a region. These data include maps, but also time series or frequency distributions. A climatological wind atlas covers hourly averages at a standard height (10 meters) over even longer periods (30 years) but depending on the application there are variations in averaging time, height, and period.

History of Wind Atlas
The purpose of wind atlases was to utilize wind for energy, an idea first brought about by Professor James Blyth who is believed to have made the first turbine in Scotland in 1887. It did not take the United States long to follow this trend with Charles Bush bring the first wind turbine to Ohio a year later. The first well-known atlas being the European Wind Atlas which was published in 1989. After the European Wind Atlas was published, Russia was soon to follow publishing their own atlas in 2000. Then Egypt published its own atlas in 2006 and finally a global wind atlas was made in order to help as many countries as possible.