The use of NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data in MCP

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2006, EWEC 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 731-739

  Brower, Michael C ^a  

^a AWS Truewind LLC   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; MEASURE-CORRELATE-PREDICT; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; REFERENCE DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRIDS; WEATHER OBSERVATIONS;

EXHIBITIONS; METEOROLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIND POWER;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84876539347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. It should be noted that all MCP methods at present implicitly assume that the past is a good prediction of the future. The validity of this assumption is called into question by the possibility of long-period climate oscillations and trends related to global warming. So far, little evidence for any significant changes in wind climate attributable to these phenomena has appeared. Still, the risk cannot be discounted. See Michael C. Brower, AWS Truewind, Impacts of Global Climate Change on Wind Resources: (I) The Historical Case, Presented at the European Wind Energy Conference, London (2004).
2. Robert Kistler et al., The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2001). For a more accessible description of reanalysis data, see http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/reanalysis/reanalysis.shtml.
3. Mark Taylor, Pawel Mackiewicz, et al., An Analysis of Wind Resource Uncertainty in Energy Production Estimates, Presented at the European Wind Energy Conference, London (2004).