Offshore wind energy files

[zcranmer]

I added all the files I'm using to include offshore wind energy in GCAM-USA. Offshore wind is included globally and in each state in the US. The Matlab code generates much of the data in the csv files. I can provide any results that you would like to see and I can provide my dissertation chapter as well. There are some bugs, particularly under high carbon taxes, there are some solution errors.

[rplzzz]

@zcranmer Thanks for your contribution. I think that in order to evaluate this pull request we will need a write-up that describes:

1. The purpose of the work. What is the problem that it is trying to solve, or science question it is trying to answer?
2. The approach taken in the work. This would include both a description of the theory behind your approach, and a description of how that was implemented in software. How does your proposed solution achieve the objectives laid out in the previous section?
3. An evaluation of the results. What changes as a result of the new work? How do those changes improve the results relative to the baseline scenarios?

It sounds like you might have some of this in your dissertation chapter, so that might be a good place to start. Depending on what you have written, you might want to edit it down to just the parts that are relevant to the items in the list above.

[zcranmer]

I've attached part of the chapter from my dissertation describing our question and the methodology (Methodology.pdf). The implementation in GCAM was modeled on onshore wind. For validation, I could provide a comparison of cases without offshore wind to cases with offshore wind. What outputs in particular would be most helpful?

[ssmithClimate]

Thanks @zcranmer for submitting this! @rplzzz, Zana also has a paper submitted (or soon to be?) that will ultimately also serve as a documentation source.

[zcranmer]

@rplzzz and @ssmithClimate The paper is preparation and hopefully will be submitted soon! So happy to share results, but preferably privately until that's submitted.

[ssmithClimate]

No need to make the paper public. I suspect your dissertation chapter is enough for the moment.

[robbieorvis]

Is there a way to download these files easily? I can't seem to figure it out... (forgive my ignorance)

[mbins]

@robbieorvis It looks like you may be able to do this on the command line: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52598824/git-download-pull-request-files-changed. Note that I haven't tried this myself. I haven't seen an easy way to do this from the web interface.

[robbieorvis]

I was actually able to do this by cloning @zcranmer's gcam-data-master folder, but the included files are incompatible with GCAM 5.0 and later, so I'm giving up for now.