Process-based climate change assessment for European winds using EURO-CORDEX and global models

J Wohland - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Wind energy is an important pillar of decarbonization strategies and potentially vulnerable to
climate change. Existing wind climate change assessments rely on climate models but a …

Increases of offshore wind potential in a warming world

C Shen, ZB Li, HS Yuan, Y Yu, Y Lei… - Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Offshore wind farms, a rapidly expanding sector within wind energy, are playing a significant
role in achieving global carbon neutrality, and this trend is to continue. Here, we utilize …

Climate change impacts on wind power generation for the Italian peninsula

R Bonanno, F Viterbo, RG Maurizio - Regional Environmental Change, 2023 - Springer
Wind energy is one of the key renewable resources contributing to climate change mitigation
policies in national and international energy transition strategies. However, climate change …

[HTML][HTML] Wind stilling ceased in the Iberian Peninsula since the 2000s

E Utrabo-Carazo, C Azorin-Molina, E Serrano… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study analyses quality controlled and homogenized near-surface wind speed series
(SWS) at 87 meteorological stations distributed across Spain and Portugal for 1961–2019 …

[HTML][HTML] Primary drivers of dune cover and shoreline dynamics: A conceptual model based on the Iberian Atlantic coast

R González-Villanueva, M Pastoriza, A Hernández… - Geomorphology, 2023 - Elsevier
Coastal dunes evolve in direct response to primary drivers, such as wind and waves, which
can significantly influence the landscape. Here, we examine the effects of the wind and …

Evaluating the contribution of climate change and urbanization to the reversal in maximum surface wind speed decline: Case study in the Yangtze River Economic …

L Liu, Y Liang, C He, B Li, L Chu, J Li - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
The drivers of variations in wind extremes, such as maximum surface wind speed (MSWS),
are important considerations in long-term wind speed studies in urbanized regions, and the …

Long-term variability of wind speed and direction in the Mediterranean basin

T Soukissian, MA Sotiriou - Wind, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this work, the ERA5 reanalysis dataset, with its fine spatial and temporal resolution, is
used to study the wind speed and direction characteristics in the Mediterranean basin from …

An assessment of observed wind speed and wind power density over China for 1980–2021

M Li, Y Shen, J Yao, D Ye, J Fan, I Simmonds - Wind Energy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The spatiotemporal characteristics of the near‐surface wind speed (NWS), wind speed at
100 m hub height (HWS), and wind power density (WPD) over China are assessed during …

Projecting future energy production from operating wind farms in North America. Part II: Statistical downscaling

J Coburn, SC Pryor - Journal of Applied Meteorology and …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Capacity factors (CFs) derived from daily expected power at 22 operating wind farms in
different regions of North America are used as predictands to train statistical downscaling …

[HTML][HTML] A general unit hydrograph distribution and its application on the marginal distribution of global wind speed

H Cai, Y Wang, T Zhao, H Zhang - Sustainable Horizons, 2023 - Elsevier
We here introduce a simple, general, and analytical method based on the general unit
hydrograph (GUH) theory proposed by Guo (2022a, 2022b, 2022c) to describe wind speed …