Climate change impacts on the power generation potential of a European mid-century wind farms scenario

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Tobin, Isabelle ^a   Jerez, Sonia ^b   Vautard, Robert ^a   Thais, Franoise ^c   Van Meijgaard, Erik ^d   Prein, Andreas ^e,f   Déqué, Michel ^g   Kotlarski, Sven ^h   Maule, Cathrine Fox ⁱ   Nikulin, Grigory ^j   Noël, Thomas ^a   Teichmann, Claas ^k  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c DIF   (France)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^g CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^h ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

ⁱ DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^j SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^k INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

climate change impacts; Europe; regional climate modelling; wind energy

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY RESOURCES; GREENHOUSE GASES; WIND POWER;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; EUROPE; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; POWER GENERATION POTENTIAL; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELLING; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; WIND POWER INDUSTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY RESOURCE; GREENHOUSE GAS; POWER GENERATION; POWER PLANT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; ITALY;

EID: 84962224607     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034013     Document Type: Review

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