Assessment of climate change impacts on energy generation from renewable sources in Croatia

Renewable Energy

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 224-231

  Pašičko, Robert ^a   Branković, Čedo ^b   Šimić, Zdenko ^c  

^a UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME   (United States)

^b METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate modelling; Hydro power; Photovoltaic; Wind power

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE MODELLING; CROATIA; CROATIANS; DOMINANT FACTOR; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; ENERGY GENERATIONS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HYDRO POWER; HYDROLOGICAL SERVICES; HYDROPOWER PLANTS; MEAN WIND SPEED; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER GENERATION FROM RENEWABLE; POWER SYSTEM PLANNING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; RENEWABLE SOURCES; RENEWABLES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; TIME SPAN; TIME-PERIODS;

CLIMATE MODELS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; NATURAL RESOURCES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND POWER;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY RESOURCE; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

CROATIA;

EID: 84860882454     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.03.029     Document Type: Article

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