Taming hurricanes with arrays of offshore wind turbines

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 195-200

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

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL ZONE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HURRICANE; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84895499527     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2120     Document Type: Article

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