Summer Covariability of Surface Climate For Renewable Energy Across the Contiguous United States: Role of the North Atlantic Subtropical High
56 pages This study examines the joint spatiotemporal variability of summertime climate linked to renewable energy sources (precipitation and streamflow, wind speeds, insolation) and energy demand drivers (temperature, relative humidity, and a heat index) across the contiguous United States (CONUS)...
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ftcornelluniv:oai:ecommons.cornell.edu:1813/70057 2023-07-30T04:05:21+02:00 Summer Covariability of Surface Climate For Renewable Energy Across the Contiguous United States: Role of the North Atlantic Subtropical High Doering, Kenji Steinschneider, Scott Anderson, C. Lindsay Reed, Patrick Micheal 2019-12 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1813/70057 http://dissertations.umi.com/cornell:10746 https://doi.org/10.7298/0e3m-0p97 en eng Doering_cornell_0058O_10746 http://dissertations.umi.com/cornell:10746 https://hdl.handle.net/1813/70057 https://doi.org/10.7298/0e3m-0p97 canonical correlation analysis climate covariability precipitation renewable energy dissertation or thesis 2019 ftcornelluniv https://doi.org/10.7298/0e3m-0p97 2023-07-15T18:53:10Z 56 pages This study examines the joint spatiotemporal variability of summertime climate linked to renewable energy sources (precipitation and streamflow, wind speeds, insolation) and energy demand drivers (temperature, relative humidity, and a heat index) across the contiguous United States (CONUS) between 1948 and 2015. Canonical correlation analysis is used to identify the primary modes of joint variability between wind speeds and precipitation and related patterns of the other hydrometeorological variables. The first two modes exhibit a pan-US dipole with lobes in the eastern and central CONUS. Composite analysis shows that these modes are directly related to the displacement of the western ridge of the North Atlantic subtropical high (NASH), suggesting that a single, large-scale feature of atmospheric circulation drives much of the large-scale climate co-variability related to summertime renewable energy supply and demand across the CONUS. The impacts of this climate feature on the U.S. energy system are shown more directly by examining changes in surface climate variables at existing and potential sites of renewable energy infrastructure and locations of high energy demand. Finally, different phases of the NASH are related to concurrent and lagged modes of oceanic and atmospheric climate variability in the Pacific and Atlantic basins, with results suggesting that springtime climate over both oceans may provide some potential to predict summer variability in the NASH and its associated surface climate. The implications of these findings for the impacts of climate variability and change on integrated renewable energy systems over the CONUS are discussed. Thesis North Atlantic Cornell University: eCommons@Cornell Nash ENVELOPE(-62.350,-62.350,-74.233,-74.233) Pacific |
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56 pages This study examines the joint spatiotemporal variability of summertime climate linked to renewable energy sources (precipitation and streamflow, wind speeds, insolation) and energy demand drivers (temperature, relative humidity, and a heat index) across the contiguous United States (CONUS) between 1948 and 2015. Canonical correlation analysis is used to identify the primary modes of joint variability between wind speeds and precipitation and related patterns of the other hydrometeorological variables. The first two modes exhibit a pan-US dipole with lobes in the eastern and central CONUS. Composite analysis shows that these modes are directly related to the displacement of the western ridge of the North Atlantic subtropical high (NASH), suggesting that a single, large-scale feature of atmospheric circulation drives much of the large-scale climate co-variability related to summertime renewable energy supply and demand across the CONUS. The impacts of this climate feature on the U.S. energy system are shown more directly by examining changes in surface climate variables at existing and potential sites of renewable energy infrastructure and locations of high energy demand. Finally, different phases of the NASH are related to concurrent and lagged modes of oceanic and atmospheric climate variability in the Pacific and Atlantic basins, with results suggesting that springtime climate over both oceans may provide some potential to predict summer variability in the NASH and its associated surface climate. The implications of these findings for the impacts of climate variability and change on integrated renewable energy systems over the CONUS are discussed. |
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Summer Covariability of Surface Climate For Renewable Energy Across the Contiguous United States: Role of the North Atlantic Subtropical High |
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Summer Covariability of Surface Climate For Renewable Energy Across the Contiguous United States: Role of the North Atlantic Subtropical High |
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Summer Covariability of Surface Climate For Renewable Energy Across the Contiguous United States: Role of the North Atlantic Subtropical High |
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Summer Covariability of Surface Climate For Renewable Energy Across the Contiguous United States: Role of the North Atlantic Subtropical High |
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Summer Covariability of Surface Climate For Renewable Energy Across the Contiguous United States: Role of the North Atlantic Subtropical High |
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summer covariability of surface climate for renewable energy across the contiguous united states: role of the north atlantic subtropical high |
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