Saturation wind power potential and its implications for wind energy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 15679-15684

  Jacobson, Mark Z ^a   Archer, Cristina L ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric modeling; Clean energy economy; Climate feedbacks; Renewable energy; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ENERGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; SHEAR STRESS; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY; WIND POWER;

CLIMATE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WIND;

EID: 84866852922     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208993109     Document Type: Article

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