Limitations of wind power availability over Europe: A conceptual study

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 803-813

  Kiss, P ^a   Janosi I M ^a,b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; WIND FIELD; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 55349119505     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-15-803-2008     Document Type: Article

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