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

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 333.9 Other natural resources
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2013
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 8.5 MB : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 258978
• Chủ đề: 1. 17 wind energy; 2. 58 geosciences; 3. Climate change; 4. Regional climate modeling; 5. Wind energy

Tóm tắt

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.