Present and future offshore wind power potential in northern Europe based on downscaled global climate runs with adjusted SST and sea ice cover
Coupled global climate models coarse results have been downscaled to produce future wind power maps for northern Europe. The downscaling method utilizes a global, stretched atmospheric numerical model with sea-surface temperature (SST) as the main forcing. The model has horizontal grid spacing equiv...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:eee:renene:v:44:y:2012:i:c:p:398-405 2024-04-14T08:19:10+00:00 Present and future offshore wind power potential in northern Europe based on downscaled global climate runs with adjusted SST and sea ice cover Barstad, Idar Sorteberg, Asgeir Mesquita, Michel dos-Santos http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148112001449 unknown http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148112001449 article ftrepec 2024-03-19T10:31:50Z Coupled global climate models coarse results have been downscaled to produce future wind power maps for northern Europe. The downscaling method utilizes a global, stretched atmospheric numerical model with sea-surface temperature (SST) as the main forcing. The model has horizontal grid spacing equivalent to about 30 km in the area of interest. As the climate models have often problems with the sea ice cover and storm tracks in vicinity of the sea ice, an alternative SST approach has been used. The SST signal from climate model runs under the A1B scenario has been added to the Era40 reanalysis data set, and used as lower boundary forcing. A 30-year control period (1972–2001) is compared to a future period (2020–2049) of equal length. Four realisations of the future period constitute the ensemble, which the future wind power potential is estimated from. Future wind resource; Downscaling of climate model results; IPCC-AR4; Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) |
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Coupled global climate models coarse results have been downscaled to produce future wind power maps for northern Europe. The downscaling method utilizes a global, stretched atmospheric numerical model with sea-surface temperature (SST) as the main forcing. The model has horizontal grid spacing equivalent to about 30 km in the area of interest. As the climate models have often problems with the sea ice cover and storm tracks in vicinity of the sea ice, an alternative SST approach has been used. The SST signal from climate model runs under the A1B scenario has been added to the Era40 reanalysis data set, and used as lower boundary forcing. A 30-year control period (1972–2001) is compared to a future period (2020–2049) of equal length. Four realisations of the future period constitute the ensemble, which the future wind power potential is estimated from. Future wind resource; Downscaling of climate model results; IPCC-AR4; |
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Barstad, Idar Sorteberg, Asgeir Mesquita, Michel dos-Santos |
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Barstad, Idar Sorteberg, Asgeir Mesquita, Michel dos-Santos Present and future offshore wind power potential in northern Europe based on downscaled global climate runs with adjusted SST and sea ice cover |
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Barstad, Idar Sorteberg, Asgeir Mesquita, Michel dos-Santos |
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Present and future offshore wind power potential in northern Europe based on downscaled global climate runs with adjusted SST and sea ice cover |
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Present and future offshore wind power potential in northern Europe based on downscaled global climate runs with adjusted SST and sea ice cover |
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Present and future offshore wind power potential in northern Europe based on downscaled global climate runs with adjusted SST and sea ice cover |
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Present and future offshore wind power potential in northern Europe based on downscaled global climate runs with adjusted SST and sea ice cover |
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Present and future offshore wind power potential in northern Europe based on downscaled global climate runs with adjusted SST and sea ice cover |
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present and future offshore wind power potential in northern europe based on downscaled global climate runs with adjusted sst and sea ice cover |
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