The impact of non-stationarities in the climate system on the definition of 'a normal wind year': A case study from the baltic

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 735-752

  Pryor, S C ^a,b   Barthelmie, R J ^b   Schoof, J T ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate change; General circulation models; Prognoses; Reanalysis data; Trends; Wind index

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; OSCILLATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER;

DATA SETS; SPATIAL FIELDS; WIND ENERGY DENSITY; WIND ENERGY INDEX; WIND SPEED DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WIND FIELD;

BALTIC REGION; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; WORLD;

EID: 20444499700     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1151     Document Type: Article

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