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A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production

Nature climate change, 2019-12, Vol.9 (12), p.979-985 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Nature Publishing Group Dec 2019 ;Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 1758-678X ;EISSN: 1758-6798 ;DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0622-6

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Title:
A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production
Author: Zeng, Zhenzhong ; Ziegler, Alan D. ; Searchinger, Timothy ; Yang, Long ; Chen, Anping ; Ju, Kunlu ; Piao, Shilong ; Li, Laurent Z. X. ; Ciais, Philippe ; Chen, Deliang ; Liu, Junguo ; Azorin-Molina, Cesar ; Chappell, Adrian ; Medvigy, David ; Wood, Eric F.
Subjects: Alternative energy sources ; atlantic ; Atmosphere ; Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics ; Atmospheric oscillations ; Capacity factor ; china ; Climatology ; earth ; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences ; Earth Sciences ; Energy ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Future winds ; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap ; Global winds ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences ; northern-hemisphere ; Oceans ; Optimization ; Oscillations ; Physics ; Renewable energy ; Sciences of the Universe ; speed trends ; Surface wind ; Terrestrial environments ; Turbine engines ; Turbines ; Urbanization ; variability ; Vegetation growth ; Wind data ; Wind power ; Wind speed
Is Part Of: Nature climate change, 2019-12, Vol.9 (12), p.979-985
Description: Wind power, a rapidly growing alternative energy source, has been threatened by reductions in global average surface wind speed, which have been occurring over land since the 1980s, a phenomenon known as global terrestrial stilling. Here, we use wind data from in situ stations worldwide to show that the stilling reversed around 2010 and that global wind speeds over land have recovered. We illustrate that decadal-scale variations of near-surface wind are probably determined by internal decadal ocean–atmosphere oscillations, rather than by vegetation growth and/or urbanization as hypothesized previously. The strengthening has increased potential wind energy by 17 ± 2% for 2010 to 2017, boosting the US wind power capacity factor by ~2.5% and explains half the increase in the US wind capacity factor since 2010. In the longer term, the use of ocean–atmosphere oscillations to anticipate future wind speeds could allow optimization of turbines for expected speeds during their productive life spans.
Publisher: London: Nature Publishing Group
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1758-678X
EISSN: 1758-6798
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0622-6
Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production

Copyright Nature Publishing Group Dec 2019 ;Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 1758-678X ;EISSN: 1758-6798 ;DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0622-6

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