The impacts of global climate changes on the wind power density in Brazil

Renewable Energy

Volumn 49, Issue , 2013, Pages 107-110

  Pereira, Enio B ^a   Martins, Fernando R ^a   Pes, Marcelo P ^a   da Cruz Segundo, Eliude I ^a   Lyra, André de A ^a  

^a National Institute for Space Science Earth System Science Centre   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climate changes; Wind energy; Wind potential; Wind scenarios

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; TREND ANALYSIS; WIND ENERGY PRODUCTION; WIND POTENTIAL; WIND POWER DENSITY; WIND PROJECTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

WIND POWER;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; TIME SERIES; WIND POWER;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84866544406     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.01.053     Document Type: Article

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