Global ocean wind power sensitivity to surface layer stability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Capps, Scott B ^a   Zender, Charles S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; BEST ESTIMATES; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL OCEAN SURFACE; HUB HEIGHT; POWER SENSITIVITY; SCATTEROMETRY; STORM TRACK; SURFACE LAYER STABILITY; WEIBULL PROBABILITY; WIND SPEED MEASUREMENT;

OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TURBINES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND POWER;

WIND EFFECTS;

GLOBAL OCEAN; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PROBABILITY; WIND FORCING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 68249153388     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL037063     Document Type: Article

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