Wind speed reversal increase wind power production
Wind speed, after a decade of decline, has begun to recover—bringing potential for increased wind power generation.
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Liu, Y., Zeng, Z., Xu, R., Ziegler, A. D., Jerez, S., Chen, D., Azorin-Molina, C., Zhou, L., Yang, X., Xu, H., Li, L., Dong, L., Zhou, F., Cao, R., Liu, J., Ye, B., Kuang, X. & Yang, X. Increases in China’s wind energy production from the recovery of wind speed since 2012. Environmental Research Letters 17, 114035. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9cf4 (2022).
Wind power ABC
A quick introduction to wind power from the natural resources, engineering and economics perspectives.
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Liu, Y. & Zeng, Z. in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability 1–17 (Springer International Publishing, 2022).https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38948-2_17-1.
Evaluation of reanalysis wind speed data
We assessed winds trends in five reanalysis products (ERA5, ERA-Interim, MERRA-2, JRA-55, and CFSv2) by comparing gridcell time series of 10-m wind speed with observational data from 1439 in situ meteorological stations.
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Fan, W., Liu, Y., Chappell, A., Dong, L., Xu, R., Ekström, M., Fu, T.-M. & Zeng, Z. Evaluation of Global Reanalysis Land Surface Wind Speed Trends to Support Wind Energy Development Using In Situ Observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-20-0037.1 (2021).