Spatial and temporal variability of wind energy resource and production over the North Western Mediterranean Sea: Sensitivity to air-sea interactions

Renewable Energy

Volumn 101, Issue , 2017, Pages 680-689

  Omrani, Hiba ^a   Drobinski, Philippe ^a   Arsouze, Thomas ^a   Bastin, Sophie ^b   Lebeaupin Brossier, Cindy ^c   Mailler, Sylvain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Air sea coupling; Offshore wind energy; Sensitivity numerical experiment

Indexed keywords

WIND POWER;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AIR-SEA COUPLING; NORTH-WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEAS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OFF-SHORE WIND ENERGY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ENERGY RESOURCE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND POWER;

FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [FRANCE]; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [SPAIN]; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST); SPAIN;

EID: 84988468533     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: 18790682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.09.028     Document Type: Article

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