Potential impacts of climate change on European wind energy resource under the CMIP5 future climate projections

D. Carvalho, A. Rocha, M. Gómez-Gesteira and C. Silva Santos

Renewable Energy, 2017, vol. 101, issue C, 29-40

Abstract: Climate change impact on future European large-scale wind energy resource under the latest IPCC CMIP5 future climate projections were analysed. After assessing the models that best reproduce contemporary near-surface wind speeds over Europe, their data was used to assess future changes in the wind energetic resource in Europe.

Keywords: Wind energy; Climate change; CMIP5; IPCC; Global models; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.08.036

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