Wind climate from the regional climate model REMO

Wind Energy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 279-296

  Larsén, Xiaoli Guo ^a   Mann, Jakob ^a   Berg, Jacob ^a   Göttel, Holger ^b   Jacob, Daniela ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mean wind climate; NCEP NCAR re analysis data; Regional climate model; REMO

Indexed keywords

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND; WIND POWER;

INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MEAN-WINDS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; REMO; WIND ENERGY ASSESSMENT; WIND ENERGY RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRELATION; ENERGY RESOURCE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WIND; WIND FORCING; WIND POWER;

GERMANY; HAMBURG [GERMANY];

EID: 77951627778     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.337     Document Type: Article

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