The Global Wind Atlas is a free, web-based application, developed to help policymakers, planners and investors identify areas with strong wind resources for wind energy generation virtually anywhere in the world, and then perform preliminary calculations. The Global Wind Atlas facilitates online queries and provides freely downloadable datasets based on the latest modelling methodologies and input data. Users can also download high-resolution maps of wind resource potential, for use in GIS tools, at the global, country and first administrative unit (State/Province/Etc.) level in the Downloads section. Information on the datasets and the methodology used to create the Global Wind Atlas can be found in the Methodology and Datasets sections.