This dataset comprises measured data from wind tunnel tests conducted between July and September 2023 at the “Giovanni Solari” Wind Tunnel Facility on a Savonius rotor wind turbine, having diameter 0.25 m, height 1 m. Key quantities investigated include: inlet wind speed, measured by a Pitot-static tube; rotor's rotational velocity, measured by Hall sensors; torque at the rotor axis, measured with a torquemeter, generated power, estimated from torque and rotational velocity; upstream and downstream flow velocities, recorded by hot wires; noise emissions that were recorded by four microphones downstream. Tests were performed across a range of wind tunnel velocities (up to 21 m/s) and rotor speeds (up to 2500 rpm), under smooth and turbulent flow, with turbulence intensity of approximately 4% and 8%.Typically, each test begins when the wind tunnel reaches a steady-state speed and applying a predetermined load to the rotor. Once steady rotation is achieved, a 60-second measurement of the relevant quantities are recorded. The load is then increased, causing the turbine to settle at a new, lower rotational speed. After stabilization, another measurement is taken. This process is repeated incrementally, increasing the load step by step, until the turbine slows down to the point of near standstill.The document readme.pdf supplies information on the data base and its use.

This dataset comprises measured data from wind tunnel tests conducted between July and September 2023 at the “Giovanni Solari” Wind Tunnel Facility on a Savonius rotor wind turbine, having diameter 0.25 m, height 1 m. Key quantities investigated include: inlet wind speed, measured by a Pitot-static tube; rotor's rotational velocity, measured by Hall sensors; torque at the rotor axis, measured with a torquemeter, generated power, estimated from torque and rotational velocity; upstream and downstream flow velocities, recorded by hot wires; noise emissions that were recorded by four microphones downstream. Tests were performed across a range of wind tunnel velocities (up to 21 m/s) and rotor speeds (up to 2500 rpm), under smooth and turbulent flow, with turbulence intensity of approximately 4% and 8%.Typically, each test begins when the wind tunnel reaches a steady-state speed and applying a predetermined load to the rotor. Once steady rotation is achieved, a 60-second measurement of the relevant quantities are recorded. The load is then increased, causing the turbine to settle at a new, lower rotational speed. After stabilization, another measurement is taken. This process is repeated incrementally, increasing the load step by step, until the turbine slows down to the point of near standstill.The document readme.pdf supplies information on the data base and its use.

This dataset comprises measured data from wind tunnel tests conducted between July and September 2023 at the “Giovanni Solari” Wind Tunnel Facility on a Savonius rotor wind turbine, having diameter 0.25 m, height 1 m. Key quantities investigated include: inlet wind speed, measured by a Pitot-static tube; rotor's rotational velocity, measured by Hall sensors; torque at the rotor axis, measured with a torquemeter, generated power, estimated from torque and rotational velocity; upstream and downstream flow velocities, recorded by hot wires; noise emissions that were recorded by four microphones downstream. Tests were performed across a range of wind tunnel velocities (up to 21 m/s) and rotor speeds (up to 2500 rpm), under smooth and turbulent flow, with turbulence intensity of approximately 4% and 8%.Typically, each test begins when the wind tunnel reaches a steady-state speed and applying a predetermined load to the rotor. Once steady rotation is achieved, a 60-second measurement of the relevant quantities are recorded. The load is then increased, causing the turbine to settle at a new, lower rotational speed. After stabilization, another measurement is taken. This process is repeated incrementally, increasing the load step by step, until the turbine slows down to the point of near standstill.The document readme.pdf supplies information on the data base and its use.

This dataset comprises measured data and results from static wind tunnel tests conducted in April 2024 at the Giovanni Solari Wind Tunnel Facility (GS-WinDyn). The tests aim to assess the drag, lift, and moment coefficients of an antenna mast designed as a triangular lattice tower, equipped with both linear and discrete ancillary components. The wind tunnel experiments are carried out under both smooth and turbulent flow conditions using a scaled 3D model of the antenna mast. Five ancillary configurations, based on predominant patterns observed, are tested. Drag forces, lift forces and moments are measured using two six-component force balances attached to the ends of the model, while downstream three-component velocity data is captured by a Cobra probe. For each configuration, aerodynamic coefficients are determined for angles of attack ranging from 0° to 360°, with increments of up to 10°. The dataset provides the measured data and the obtained aerodynamic coefficients and it has significant reuse potential in several applications: comparison with experimental wind tunnel data, validation of analytical and numerical CFD models with similar configurations, estimation of wind loads due to ancillary structures, and characterization of wake effects.

This dataset comprises measured data and results from static wind tunnel tests conducted in April 2024 at the Giovanni Solari Wind Tunnel Facility (GS-WinDyn). The tests aim to assess the drag, lift, and moment coefficients of an antenna mast designed as a triangular lattice tower, equipped with both linear and discrete ancillary components. The wind tunnel experiments are carried out under both smooth and turbulent flow conditions using a scaled 3D model of the antenna mast. Five ancillary configurations, based on predominant patterns observed, are tested. Drag forces, lift forces and moments are measured using two six-component force balances attached to the ends of the model, while downstream three-component velocity data is captured by a Cobra probe. For each configuration, aerodynamic coefficients are determined for angles of attack ranging from 0° to 360°, with increments of up to 10°. The dataset provides the measured data and the obtained aerodynamic coefficients and it has significant reuse potential in several applications: comparison with experimental wind tunnel data, validation of analytical and numerical CFD models with similar configurations, estimation of wind loads due to ancillary structures, and characterization of wake effects.

In the context of the European projects “Wind and Ports” (grant No. B87E09000000007) and “Wind, Ports and Sea” (grant No. B82F13000100005), an extensive in-situ wind monitoring network was installed in the main ports of the Northern Mediterranean Sea. An unprecedent number of wind records has been acquired and systematically analyzed. Among these, a considerable number of records presented non-stationary and non-Gaussian characteristics that are completely different from those of synoptic extra-tropical cyclones, widely known in the atmospheric science and wind engineering communities. The cross-checking with meteorological information allows to identify which of these events can be defined as thunderstorm winds, i.e., downbursts and gust fronts. The scientific literature of the last few decades has demonstrated that downbursts, and especially micro-bursts, are extremely dangerous for the natural and built environment. Furthermore, recent trends in climate change seem to preview drastic future scenarios in terms of intensification and frequency increase of this type of extreme events. However, the limited space and time structure of thunderstorm outflows makes them still difficult to be measured in nature and, consequently, to build physically reliable and easily applicable models as in the case of extra-tropical cyclones. For these reasons, the collection and publication of events of this type represents a unique opportunity for the scientific community. The dataset here presented was built in the context of the activities of the project THUNDERR “Detection, simulation, modelling and loading of thunderstorm outflows to design wind-safer and cost-efficient structures”, financed by the European Research Council (ERC), Advanced Grant 2016 (grant No. 741273, P.I. Prof. Giovanni Solari, University of Genoa). It collects 29 thunderstorm downbursts that occurred between 2010 and 2015 in the Italian ports of Genoa (GE) (4), Livorno (LI) (14), and La Spezia (SP) (11), and were recorded by means of ultrasonic anemometers (Gill WindObserver II in Genoa and La Spezia, Gill WindMaster Pro in Livorno). All thunderstorm events included in the database were verified by means of meteorological information, such as radar (CIMA Research Foundation is gratefully acknowledge for providing with most of the radar images), satellite, and lightning data. In fact, (i) high and localized clouds typical of thunderstorm cumulonimbus, (ii) precipitations, and (iii) lightnings represent reliable indicators of the occurrence of the thunderstorm event. Some events were recorded by multiple anemometers in the same port area – the total number of signals included in the database is 99. Despite the limited number of points (anemometers), this will allow the user to perform cross-correlation analysis in time and space to eventually retrieve size, position, trajectory of the storm, etc. The ASCII tab-delimited file ‘Anemometers_location.txt’ reports specifications of the anemometers used in this monitoring study: port code (Port code – Genoa-GE, Livorno-LI, La Spezia-SP); anemometer code (Anemometer code); latitude (Lat.) and longitude (Lon.) in decimal degree WGS84; height above the ground level (h a.g.l.) in meters; Instrument type. Bi-axial anemometers were used from the ports of Genoa and La Spezia, recording the two horizontal wind speed components (u, v). Three-axial ultrasonic anemometers were used in the port of Livorno, also providing the vertical wind speed component w (except bi-axial anemometers LI06 and LI07). All anemometers acquired velocity data at sampling frequency 10 Hz, sensitivity 0.01 m s^-1 (except anemometers LI06 and LI07 with sensitivity 0.1 m s^-1) and were installed at various heights ranging from 13.0 to 75.0 m, as reported in the file ‘Anemometers_location.txt’. The ASCII tab-delimited file ‘List_DBevents.txt’ lists all downburst records included in the database, in terms of: event and record number (Event | record no.); port code (Port code); date of event occurrence (Date) in the format yyyy-mm-dd; approximate time of occurrence of the velocity peak (Time [UTC]) in the format HH:MM; anemometer code (Anemometer code). The database is presented as a zip file (‘DB-records.zip’). The events are divided based on the port of occurrence (three folders GE, LI, and SP). Within each folder, the downburst events that were recorded in that specific port are reported as subfolders (name format ‘[port code]_yyyy-mm-dd’) and contain the single anemometers signals as TAB-delimited text files (name format ‘[port and anemometer code]_yyyy-mm-dd.txt’). Each sub-dataset (file) contains 3(4) columns and 360.000 rows. The first column shows the 10-h time vector (t, ISO format) in UTC, while the remaining 2(3) columns report the 10-h time series of 10-Hz instantaneous horizontal (zonal west-to-east u, meridional south-to-north v) and, where available, vertical (positive upward w) wind speed components, centred around the time of maximum horizontal wind speed (vectorial sum of u and v). The choice of representation of the wind speed in a large time interval (10 hours) allows the user to perform a more comprehensive and detailed analysis of the event by taking into account also the wind conditions before and after the onset of the downburst phenomenon. ‘NaN’ values are reported in wind velocity signals when the instrument did not record valid data. Some wind speed records show noise in discrete intervals of the signal, which reflects in an increase of the wind speed standard deviation. However, the records provided in the database here published are the original signals without any filtering applied. That way, the user can handle the data according to his/her choice. The presented database can be further used by researchers to validate and calibrate experimental and numerical simulations, as well as analytical models, of downburst winds. It will also be an important resource for the scientific community working in the wind engineering field, in meteorology and atmospheric sciences, as well as in the risk management and reductions of losses related to thunderstorm events (i.e., insurance companies).

In the context of the European projects “Wind and Ports” (grant No. B87E09000000007) and “Wind, Ports and Sea” (grant No. B82F13000100005), an extensive in-situ wind monitoring network was installed in the main ports of the Northern Mediterranean Sea. An unprecedent number of wind records has been acquired and systematically analyzed. Among these, a considerable number of records presented non-stationary and non-Gaussian characteristics that are completely different from those of synoptic extra-tropical cyclones, widely known in the atmospheric science and wind engineering communities. The cross-checking with meteorological information allows to identify which of these events can be defined as thunderstorm winds, i.e., downbursts and gust fronts.The scientific literature of the last few decades has demonstrated that downbursts, and especially micro-bursts, are extremely dangerous for the natural and built environment. Furthermore, recent trends in climate change seem to preview drastic future scenarios in terms of intensification and frequency increase of this type of extreme events. However, the limited space and time structure of thunderstorm outflows makes them still difficult to be measured in nature and, consequently, to build physically reliable and easily applicable models as in the case of extra-tropical cyclones. For these reasons, the collection and publication of events of this type represents a unique opportunity for the scientific community.The dataset here presented was built in the context of the activities of the project THUNDERR “Detection, simulation, modelling and loading of thunderstorm outflows to design wind-safer and cost-efficient structures”, financed by the European Research Council (ERC), Advanced Grant 2016 (grant No. 741273, P.I. Prof. Giovanni Solari, University of Genoa). It collects 29 thunderstorm downbursts that occurred between 2010 and 2015 in the Italian ports of Genoa (GE) (4), Livorno (LI) (14), and La Spezia (SP) (11), and were recorded by means of ultrasonic anemometers (Gill WindObserver II in Genoa and La Spezia, Gill WindMaster Pro in Livorno). All thunderstorm events included in the database were verified by means of meteorological information, such as radar (CIMA Research Foundation is gratefully acknowledge for providing with most of the radar images), satellite, and lightning data. In fact, (i) high and localized clouds typical of thunderstorm cumulonimbus, (ii) precipitations, and (iii) lightnings represent reliable indicators of the occurrence of the thunderstorm event.Some events were recorded by multiple anemometers in the same port area – the total number of signals included in the database is 99. Despite the limited number of points (anemometers), this will allow the user to perform cross-correlation analysis in time and space to eventually retrieve size, position, trajectory of the storm, etc.The ASCII tab-delimited file ‘Anemometers_location.txt’ reports specifications of the anemometers used in this monitoring study: port code (Port code – Genoa-GE, Livorno-LI, La Spezia-SP); anemometer code (Anemometer code); latitude (Lat.) and longitude (Lon.) in decimal degree WGS84; height above the ground level (h a.g.l.) in meters; Instrument type. Bi-axial anemometers were used from the ports of Genoa and La Spezia, recording the two horizontal wind speed components (u, v). Three-axial ultrasonic anemometers were used in the port of Livorno, also providing the vertical wind speed component w (except bi-axial anemometers LI06 and LI07). All anemometers acquired velocity data at sampling frequency 10 Hz, sensitivity 0.01 m s-1 (except anemometers LI06 and LI07 with sensitivity 0.1 m s-1) and were installed at various heights ranging from 13.0 to 75.0 m, as reported in the file ‘Anemometers_location.txt’.The ASCII tab-delimited file ‘List_DBevents.txt’ lists all downburst records included in the database, in terms of: event and record number (Event | record no.); port code (Port code); date of event occurrence (Date) in the format yyyy-mm-dd; approximate time of occurrence of the velocity peak (Time [UTC]) in the format HH:MM; anemometer code (Anemometer code). The database is presented as a zip file (‘DB-records.zip’). The events are divided based on the port of occurrence (three folders GE, LI, and SP). Within each folder, the downburst events that were recorded in that specific port are reported as subfolders (name format ‘[port code]_yyyy-mm-dd’) and contain the single anemometers signals as TAB-delimited text files (name format ‘[port and anemometer code]_yyyy-mm-dd.txt’). Each sub-dataset (file) contains 3(4) columns and 360.000 rows. The first column shows the 10-h time vector (t, ISO format) in UTC, while the remaining 2(3) columns report the 10-h time series of 10-Hz instantaneous horizontal (zonal west-to-east u, meridional south-to-north v) and, where available, vertical (positive upward w) wind speed components, centred around the time of maximum horizontal wind speed (vectorial sum of u and v). The choice of representation of the wind speed in a large time interval (10 hours) allows the user to perform a more comprehensive and detailed analysis of the event by taking into account also the wind conditions before and after the onset of the downburst phenomenon. 'Not-a-Number' (‘NaN’) values are reported in wind velocity signals when the instrument did not record valid data. Some wind speed records show noise in discrete intervals of the signal, which reflects in an increase of the wind speed standard deviation. A modified Hampel filter was employed to remove measurement outliers. For each wind speed signal, every data sample was considered in ascending order, along with its adjacent ten samples (five on each side). This technique calculated the median and standard deviation within the sampling window using the median absolute deviation. Elements deviating from the median by more than six standard deviations were identified and replaced with 'NaN'. The tuning of the filter parameters involved finding a balance between overly agressive and insufficient removal of outliers. Residual outliers were subsequently manually removed through meticulous qualitative inspection. The complexity and subjectivity of this operation provide users with the opportunity to explore alternative approaches. Consequently, the published dataset includes two versions: an initial version (v1) comprising the original raw data with no filtering applied, and a second "cleaned" version (v2).The presented database can be further used by researchers to validate and calibrate experimental and numerical simulations, as well as analytical models, of downburst winds. It will also be an important resource for the scientific community working in the wind engineering field, in meteorology and atmospheric sciences, as well as in the risk management and reductions of losses related to thunderstorm events (i.e., insurance companies).

In the context of the European projects “Wind and Ports” (grant No. B87E09000000007) and “Wind, Ports and Sea” (grant No. B82F13000100005), an extensive in-situ wind monitoring network was installed in the main ports of the Northern Mediterranean Sea. An unprecedent number of wind records has been acquired and systematically analyzed. Among these, a considerable number of records presented non-stationary and non-Gaussian characteristics that are completely different from those of synoptic extra-tropical cyclones, widely known in the atmospheric science and wind engineering communities. The cross-checking with meteorological information allows to identify which of these events can be defined as thunderstorm winds, i.e., downbursts and gust fronts.The scientific literature of the last few decades has demonstrated that downbursts, and especially micro-bursts, are extremely dangerous for the natural and built environment. Furthermore, recent trends in climate change seem to preview drastic future scenarios in terms of intensification and frequency increase of this type of extreme events. However, the limited space and time structure of thunderstorm outflows makes them still difficult to be measured in nature and, consequently, to build physically reliable and easily applicable models as in the case of extra-tropical cyclones. For these reasons, the collection and publication of events of this type represents a unique opportunity for the scientific community.The dataset here presented was built in the context of the activities of the project THUNDERR “Detection, simulation, modelling and loading of thunderstorm outflows to design wind-safer and cost-efficient structures”, financed by the European Research Council (ERC), Advanced Grant 2016 (grant No. 741273, P.I. Prof. Giovanni Solari, University of Genoa). It collects 29 thunderstorm downbursts that occurred between 2010 and 2015 in the Italian ports of Genoa (GE) (4), Livorno (LI) (14), and La Spezia (SP) (11), and were recorded by means of ultrasonic anemometers (Gill WindObserver II in Genoa and La Spezia, Gill WindMaster Pro in Livorno). All thunderstorm events included in the database were verified by means of meteorological information, such as radar (CIMA Research Foundation is gratefully acknowledge for providing with most of the radar images), satellite, and lightning data. In fact, (i) high and localized clouds typical of thunderstorm cumulonimbus, (ii) precipitations, and (iii) lightnings represent reliable indicators of the occurrence of the thunderstorm event.Some events were recorded by multiple anemometers in the same port area – the total number of signals included in the database is 99. Despite the limited number of points (anemometers), this will allow the user to perform cross-correlation analysis in time and space to eventually retrieve size, position, trajectory of the storm, etc.The ASCII tab-delimited file ‘Anemometers_location.txt’ reports specifications of the anemometers used in this monitoring study: port code (Port code – Genoa-GE, Livorno-LI, La Spezia-SP); anemometer code (Anemometer code); latitude (Lat.) and longitude (Lon.) in decimal degree WGS84; height above the ground level (h a.g.l.) in meters; Instrument type. Bi-axial anemometers were used from the ports of Genoa and La Spezia, recording the two horizontal wind speed components (u, v). Three-axial ultrasonic anemometers were used in the port of Livorno, also providing the vertical wind speed component w (except bi-axial anemometers LI06 and LI07). All anemometers acquired velocity data at sampling frequency 10 Hz, sensitivity 0.01 m s-1 (except anemometers LI06 and LI07 with sensitivity 0.1 m s-1) and were installed at various heights ranging from 13.0 to 75.0 m, as reported in the file ‘Anemometers_location.txt’.The ASCII tab-delimited file ‘List_DBevents.txt’ lists all downburst records included in the database, in terms of: event and record number (Event | record no.); port code (Port code); date of event occurrence (Date) in the format yyyy-mm-dd; approximate time of occurrence of the velocity peak (Time [UTC]) in the format HH:MM; anemometer code (Anemometer code). The database is presented as a zip file (‘DB-records.zip’). The events are divided based on the port of occurrence (three folders GE, LI, and SP). Within each folder, the downburst events that were recorded in that specific port are reported as subfolders (name format ‘[port code]_yyyy-mm-dd’) and contain the single anemometers signals as TAB-delimited text files (name format ‘[port and anemometer code]_yyyy-mm-dd.txt’). Each sub-dataset (file) contains 3(4) columns and 360.000 rows. The first column shows the 10-h time vector (t, ISO format) in UTC, while the remaining 2(3) columns report the 10-h time series of 10-Hz instantaneous horizontal (zonal west-to-east u, meridional south-to-north v) and, where available, vertical (positive upward w) wind speed components, centred around the time of maximum horizontal wind speed (vectorial sum of u and v). The choice of representation of the wind speed in a large time interval (10 hours) allows the user to perform a more comprehensive and detailed analysis of the event by taking into account also the wind conditions before and after the onset of the downburst phenomenon. 'Not-a-Number' (‘NaN’) values are reported in wind velocity signals when the instrument did not record valid data. Some wind speed records show noise in discrete intervals of the signal, which reflects in an increase of the wind speed standard deviation. A modified Hampel filter was employed to remove measurement outliers. For each wind speed signal, every data sample was considered in ascending order, along with its adjacent ten samples (five on each side). This technique calculated the median and standard deviation within the sampling window using the median absolute deviation. Elements deviating from the median by more than six standard deviations were identified and replaced with 'NaN'. The tuning of the filter parameters involved finding a balance between overly agressive and insufficient removal of outliers. Residual outliers were subsequently manually removed through meticulous qualitative inspection. The complexity and subjectivity of this operation provide users with the opportunity to explore alternative approaches. Consequently, the published dataset includes two versions: an initial version (v1) comprising the original raw data with no filtering applied, and a second "cleaned" version (v2).The presented database can be further used by researchers to validate and calibrate experimental and numerical simulations, as well as analytical models, of downburst winds. It will also be an important resource for the scientific community working in the wind engineering field, in meteorology and atmospheric sciences, as well as in the risk management and reductions of losses related to thunderstorm events (i.e., insurance companies).