Assessment of offshore wind speed and power potential over the Mediterranean and the Black Seas under future climate changes

I Koletsis, V Kotroni, K Lagouvardos… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Renewable energy resources including wind power are being increasingly harnessed to
provide electricity generation potential with negligible emissions of carbon dioxide …

[HTML][HTML] Recent sea surface temperature trends and future scenarios for the Mediterranean Sea

M Shaltout, A Omstedt - Oceanologia, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract We analyse recent Mediterranean Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and their
response to global change using 1/4-degree gridded advanced very-high-resolution …

High-resolution model-based wind atlas for Greece

V Kotroni, K Lagouvardos, S Lykoudis - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2014 - Elsevier
In the frame of this paper a wind climatology has been built for Greece, based on high
resolution model simulations performed for a typical year of wind conditions over the area …

[HTML][HTML] Climatology and dynamics of the summer Etesian winds over the eastern Mediterranean

E Tyrlis, J Lelieveld - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Climatology and Dynamics of the Summer Etesian Winds over the Eastern Mediterranean in:
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 70 Issue 11 (2013) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

Precipitation in Europe in relation to circulation patterns at the 500 hPa level

J Wibig - International Journal of Climatology: A Journal of the …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The relationships of circulation patterns defined as rotated principal components of the 500
hPa geopotential heights in the Euro‐Atlantic sector to precipitation distribution in Europe …

Evaluation of the TRMM 3B43 gridded precipitation estimates over Greece

PT Nastos, J Kapsomenakis, KM Philandras - Atmospheric Research, 2016 - Elsevier
The goal of this study is the assessment of the reliability of the V7 TRMM (Tropical Rainfall
Measuring Mission) 3B43 gridded precipitation estimates over Greece. The validation was …

Climatology of the Sistan Levar wind: Atmospheric dynamics driving its onset, duration and withdrawal

M Hamidianpour, SMA Jahanshahi, DG Kaskaoutis… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
Levar wind is the dominant meteorological and climatic feature in east Iran, blowing from
Central Asia to the northern coast of the Arabian Sea. It is also known as “120-days wind” …

Climatology and trends of aerosol optical depth over the Mediterranean basin during the last 12 years (2002–2014) based on Collection 006 MODIS-Aqua data

AA Floutsi, MB Korras-Carraca, C Matsoukas… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Mediterranean basin is a region of particular interest for studying atmospheric aerosols
due to the large variety of air masses it receives, and its sensitivity to climate change. In this …

Climate change impact of wind energy availability in the Eastern Mediterranean using the regional climate model PRECIS

A Bloom, V Kotroni… - Natural Hazards and Earth …, 2008 - nhess.copernicus.org
Global near-surface wind fields are projected to change as a result of climate change. An
enhanced knowledge of the changes in wind energy availability in the twenty-first century is …

Aerosol climatology and discrimination of different types over Athens, Greece, based on MODIS data

DG Kaskaoutis, P Kosmopoulos, HD Kambezidis… - Atmospheric …, 2007 - Elsevier
A long-term (2000–2005) monitoring of aerosol data from the moderate resolution imaging
spectroradiometer (MODIS) is analyzed focusing on the Greater Athens Area (GAA) in the …