The impact of climate change on the U.S. wind energy resource

doi:10.2172/1069099

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DOI	10.2172/1069099
报告编号	DOEER64650
来源ID	OSTI ID: 1069099
	The impact of climate change on the U.S. wind energy resource
	Daniel Kirk-Davidoff; Daniel Barrie
	2013-03-19
出版年	2013
语种	英语
国家	美国
领域	地球科学
英文摘要	The growing need for low-carbon emitting electricity sources has resulted in rapid growth in the wind power industry. The size and steadiness of the offshore wind resource has attracted growing investment in the planning of offshore wind turbine installations. Decisions about the location and character of wind farms should be made with an eye not only to present but also future wind resource, which may change as increasing carbon dioxide forces reductions in the poleward temperature gradient, and thus potentially in the mean tropospheric westerly winds. I propose to use the new North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program climate projections to estimate the change of the wind power resource under various carbon dioxide loading scenarios and for a range of climate models. We will compare our assessment with both our assessment based on the IPCC AR4 model runs, to explore the extent to which improved model resolution changes the prediction for the wind power resource, and with present day estimates from reanalysis and scatterometer winds.
英文关键词	Wind energy climate change regional climate modeling
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来源平台	US Department of Energy (DOE)
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文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/6354
专题	地球科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Daniel Kirk-Davidoff,Daniel Barrie. The impact of climate change on the U.S. wind energy resource,2013.