Present and future offshore wind power potential in northern Europe based on downscaled global climate runs with adjusted SST and sea ice cover

Renewable Energy

Volumn 44, Issue , 2012, Pages 398-405

  Barstad, Idar ^a   Sorteberg, Asgeir ^b   Mesquita, Michel dos Santos ^b,c  

^a Uni Research   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Downscaling of climate model results; Future wind resource; IPCC AR4

Indexed keywords

A1B SCENARIOS; AREA OF INTEREST; CONTROL PERIODS; COUPLED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; DATA SETS; DOWNSCALING METHODS; DOWNSCALING OF CLIMATE MODEL RESULTS; FUTURE WIND RESOURCE; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; IPCC-AR4; LOWER BOUNDARY; OFFSHORE WIND POWER; POWER POTENTIAL; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA-ICE COVER; SHADOW EFFECTS; STORM TRACK; WIND POWER PRODUCTION;

CLIMATE MODELS; SEA ICE; STORMS;

WIND POWER;

CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE COVER; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM TRACK; TERRAIN; WIND POWER;

NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84858290283     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.02.008     Document Type: Article

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