{{Otheruses|Wasp (disambiguation)}} '''WAsP''' (Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program) is a Windows program for predicting wind climates, wind resources, and energy yields from wind turbines and wind farms. An application of the software is determining good locations to develop wind farms.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sveinbjornsson |first1=Stefan Kari |title=Analysis of WAsP (Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program) in complex topographical conditions using measured production from a large scale wind farm. |date=25 July 2013 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/1773/23584 |publisher=University of Washington}}</ref>
The predictions are based on wind data measured at meteorological stations in the same region, or on generalised wind climates derived from mesoscale model results. The program includes a complex terrain flow model, a roughness change model, a model for sheltering obstacles, a wind turbine wake model and a model for the average atmospheric stability conditions at the site. The software package further contains a Climate Analyst for creating the wind-climatological inputs, a Map Editor for creating and editing the topographical inputs, and a Turbine Editor for creating the wind turbine inputs to WAsP. The fundamentals of WAsP and the wind atlas methodology are described in the European Wind Atlas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wasp.dk/dataandtools#wind-atlas__european-wind-atlas|accessdate=31 December 2016|title=European Wind Atlas|archive-date=7 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161207052214/http://www.wasp.dk/dataandtools#wind-atlas__european-wind-atlas|url-status=dead}}</ref> WAsP is developed and distributed by DTU Wind and Energy Systems at the Technical University of Denmark, Denmark. Current version is WAsP 12.7.
WAsP is used for:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wasp.dk/wasp|accessdate=31 December 2016|title=WAsP home page, DTU Wind Energy}}</ref> * Wind farm production * Wind farm efficiency * Micro-siting of wind turbines * Power production calculations * Wind resource mapping * Wind climate estimation * Wind atlas generation * Wind data analysis A special implementation of the WAsP software has been used to map the wind climate of the entire world with a resolution of 250 m, see the Global Wind Atlas.
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==External links== * [https://www.wasp.dk The official site of WAsP] * [https://globalwindatlas.info/ The Global Wind Atlas] * [https://wind.dtu.dk/ Department of Wind and Energy Systems, DTU]
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