A total of 19 months of daily weather logging on the US east coast: the WFIP3 event log

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• Journal Title:
  Wind Energy Science
• Personal Author:
  Bodini, Nicola ; Olson, Joseph ; Gaudet, Brian ; Iungo, Giacomo Valerio ; Shams Solari, Mojtaba ; Roy, Sayahnya ; Lundquist, Julie K. ; Agarwal, Nathan ; Myers, Timothy A. ; Adler, Bianca ; Mirocha, Jeffrey D. ; James, Eric ; Bianco, Laura ; Wilczak, James M. ; Turner, David D.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; GSL (Global Systems Laboratory) ; PSL (Physical Sciences Laboratory) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
• Description:
  The Third Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP3) is a multi-institutional field campaign designed to advance the understanding and prediction of the offshore atmospheric boundary layer along the US east coast. Extending from February 2024 through August 2025, WFIP3 combines long-term coastal and offshore measurements with targeted modeling and forecasting efforts. This data paper presents the WFIP3 event log, a curated record of 578 d of meteorological phenomena and field observations that complements the campaign's extensive high-frequency datasets. The event log provides both manually documented daily weather discussions and automatically derived indicators of atmospheric processes – including low-level jets, wind ramps, extreme wind veer, and weak wind conditions – based on observations from scanning lidars deployed at three coastal and offshore sites. The dataset offers structured metadata, standardized time and site identifiers, and consistent terminology to facilitate its integration with WFIP3's observational and modeling data products. The log supports diverse applications, from model evaluation and forecast verification to the selection of case studies on offshore boundary-layer dynamics. The WFIP3 event log is publicly available through the US Department of Energy's Wind Data Hub, providing the research community with a transparent and enduring contextual reference for the interpretation and use of WFIP3 measurements.
• Source:
  Wind Energy Science, 11(5), 1949-1961
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-1949-2026
• ISSN:
  2366-7451
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  Copernicus GmbH
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA22OAR4320151
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC BY
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7161363472656aac03ac6a19cc35d7f7c860b0396dedc42008c382e66d666e957ed15c1f7ba87b394088fb04a01b5655ba90bbf781473608caaa06312e14e742
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  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/73569/noaa_73569_DS1.pdf
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