Large-scale wind energy potential of the Caribbean region using near-surface reanalysis data

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue , 2014, Pages 45-58

  Chadee, Xsitaaz T ^a   Clarke, Ricardo M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Caribbean; NCEP DOE reanalysis data; Wind resource assessment

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; INITIAL AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NEAR-SURFACE WINDS; REANALYSIS; WIND ENERGY PROJECTS; WIND POWER DENSITY; WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT;

DROUGHT; COASTAL ZONES; WIND; WIND EFFECTS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 84886263262     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2013.09.018     Document Type: Review

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