Eight years of wind measurements from scatterometer for wind resource mapping in the Mediterranean Sea

Wind Energy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 355-372

  Furevik, Birgitte R ^a   Sempreviva, Anna M ^b,c   Cavaleri, Luigi ^d   Lefèvre, Jean Michel ^e   Transerici, Claudio ^f  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^e MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^f CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

in situ wind; Mediterranean Sea; QuikScat; satellite wind; wind index

Indexed keywords

NASA; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; WIND POWER;

IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LONG TERM STATISTICS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OFFSHORE WINDS; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE WINDS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; WIND MEASUREMENT;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

COASTAL ZONE; DATA BUOY; MAPPING METHOD; QUIKSCAT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SCATTEROMETER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND PROFILE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 79955051770     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.425     Document Type: Article

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