Statistical-dynamical downscaling for wind energy potentials: Evaluation and applications to decadal hindcasts and climate change projections

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 229-244

  Reyers, Mark ^a   Pinto, Joaquim G ^a,b   Moemken, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change projections; Decadal forecasts; Ensembles; Statistical dynamical downscaling; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEA LEVEL; WIND; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CIRCULATION WEATHER TYPES; CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLES; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS (PDFS); REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; STATISTICAL-DYNAMICAL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84922789056     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3975     Document Type: Article

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