Vulnerability of the energy system to extreme wind speeds and icing

Climate Change in the Midwest: Impacts, Risks, Vulnerability, and Adaptation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 213-229

  Pryor, S C ^a   Barthelmie, R J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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