Climate change impacts on wind power generation

SC Pryor, RJ Barthelmie, MS Bukovsky… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Wind energy is a virtually carbon-free and pollution-free electricity source, with global wind
resources greatly exceeding electricity demand. Accordingly, the installed capacity of wind …

[HTML][HTML] Is water quality in British rivers “better than at any time since the end of the Industrial Revolution”?

MJ Whelan, C Linstead, F Worrall, SJ Ormerod… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
We explore the oft-repeated claim that river water quality in Great Britain is “better now than
at any time since the Industrial Revolution”. We review available data and ancillary evidence …

Future changes in the extratropical storm tracks and cyclone intensity, wind speed, and structure

MDK Priestley, JL Catto - Weather and Climate Dynamics …, 2021 - wcd.copernicus.org
Future changes in extratropical cyclones and the associated storm tracks are uncertain.
Using the new CMIP6 models, we investigate changes to seasonal mean storm tracks and …

Future increased risk from extratropical windstorms in northern Europe

AS Little, MDK Priestley, JL Catto - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
European windstorms cause socioeconomic losses due to wind damage. Projections of
future losses from such storms are subject to uncertainties from the frequency and tracks of …

Climate change mitigation potential of wind energy

RJ Barthelmie, SC Pryor - Climate, 2021 - mdpi.com
Global wind resources greatly exceed current electricity demand and the levelized cost of
energy from wind turbines has shown precipitous declines. Accordingly, the installed …

NORA3: A nonhydrostatic high-resolution hindcast of the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, and the Barents Sea

H Haakenstad, Ø Breivik, BR Furevik… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The 3-km Norwegian Reanalysis (NORA3) is a 15-yr mesoscale-permitting
atmospheric hindcast of the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, and the Barents Sea. With a …

Serial clustering of extratropical cyclones: A review of where, when and why it occurs

HF Dacre, JG Pinto - NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2020 - nature.com
Serial clustering of extratropical cyclones describes the passage of multiple cyclones over a
fixed location within a given time period. Such periods often result in high precipitation totals …

Long-term trends in atmospheric rivers over East Asia

J Liang, Y Yong, MK Hawcroft - Climate dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) play an important role in the climate of East Asia due to their close
linkage to precipitation extremes. In this study, long-term trends in ARs over East Asia for the …

Regional climate impacts of future changes in the mid–latitude atmospheric circulation: A storyline view

G Zappa - Current Climate Change Reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Atmospheric circulation exerts a strong control on regional
climate and extremes. However, projections of future circulation change remain uncertain …

Emerging signals of climate change from the equator to the poles: new insights into a warming world

M Collins, JD Beverley, TJ Bracegirdle, J Catto… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The reality of human-induced climate change is unequivocal and exerts an ever-increasing
global impact. Access to the latest scientific information on current climate change and …