Wind speed east of Qaanaaq, Greenland 2022-2024

The overall goals of the project were to discover sustainable technological innovations and to identify an achievable and affordable pathway to the future for small fishing communities in a changing Arctic, using Qaanaaq, Greenland and surrounding settlements as the study location. An iterative, systems-based approach that is driven by stakeholder values and objectives was used to define energy and fishery-related research needs faced by hunter-fishers who rely on fishing for their food and income. Stakeholder-driven science with knowledge co-generation between community members and academics addressed multifaceted aspects of the issues. One aspect of the study involved assessing whether off-grid small-scale wind energy could be useful for charging batteries at remote cabins, yet wind speed and direction data at the study site did not exist. The data archived here were generated to gain measurements of the wind speed and direction at the study site. This project installed and monitored wind speed and direction at the site by installation of an RM Young wind sensor on a 3-meter (m) tower; the wind data was recorded and stored over time using a Campbell Scientific Datalogger. The datalogger was powered by a battery that was charged with a solar panel during months when the sun was above the horizon, and in the sunless months the battery was periodically manually replaced with a battery that was fully charged. The data was periodically downloaded from the datalogger onto a notebook computer and used to update the dataset.