A numerical approach for planning offshore wind farms from regional to local scales over the Mediterranean

Renewable Energy

Volumn 85, Issue , 2016, Pages 395-405

  Balog, Irena ^a   Ruti, Paolo M ^b   Tobin, Isabelle ^c   Armenio, Vincenzo ^a   Vautard, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b ENEA   (Italy)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Mediterranean sea; Offshore wind energy; QuikSCAT satellite observations; Regional climate models; Wind resources atlas; Wind variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY RESOURCES; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REMOTE SENSING; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; WIND; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OFF-SHORE WIND ENERGY; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; WIND RESOURCES; WIND VARIABILITIES;

OFFSHORE WIND FARMS;

ANNUAL CYCLE; ATLAS; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY PLANNING; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; QUIKSCAT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REMOTE SENSING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SATELLITE DATA; WIND FARM; WIND FIELD; WIND TURBINE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84935515934     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: 18790682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.06.038     Document Type: Article

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