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Decadal predictability of regional scale wind speed and wind energy potentials over Central Europe

Tellus
Volume 68 (2016): Issue 1
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|Dec 2016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v68.29199 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 29199 - 29199
Submitted on: Jul 20, 2015
Accepted on: Feb 24, 2016
Published on: Dec 1, 2016
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
decadal prediction,
regionalisation,
wind speed,
wind energy,
Central Europe,
statistical-dynamical downscaling,
MiKlip decadal prediction system,
MPI-ESM,
COSMO-CLM

© 2016 Julia Moemken, Mark Reyers, Benjamin Buldmann, Joaquim G. Pinto, published by Stockholm University Press
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