Unstructured grid modelling of offshore wind farm impacts on seasonally stratified shelf seas

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 145, Issue , 2016, Pages 25-41

  Cazenave, Pierre William ^a   Torres, Ricardo ^a   Allen, J Icarus ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FLOODS; REMOTE SENSING; TIDAL POWER; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT CYCLING; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SMALL-SCALE MODELS; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

OFFSHORE WIND FARMS;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DIAMETER; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; FLOODING; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SHELF SEA; STRATIFICATION; TIDAL CONSTITUENT; VERTICAL MIXING; WIND FARM; WIND TURBINE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRISH SEA;

EID: 84966709812     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2016.04.004     Document Type: Article

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