Grand challenges in the science of wind energy

P Veers, K Dykes, E Lantz, S Barth, CL Bottasso… - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND A growing global population and an increasing demand for energy services
are expected to result in substantially greater deployment of clean energy sources. Wind …

Wind and solar resource data sets

A Clifton, BM Hodge, C Draxl… - … Reviews: Energy and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The range of resource data sets spans from static cartography showing the mean annual
wind speed or solar irradiance across a region to high temporal and high spatial resolution …

Hydrovoltaic electricity generation from potato carbon cake: using an interconnected porous solar steam generator

S Lal, V Mohan, SK Batabyal - Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Integrating two advanced techniques, such as solar thermal evaporation (STE) for
freshwater production and hydrovoltaic (HV) for electricity generation, makes a considerable …

Global patterns of offshore wind variability

CG West, RB Smith - Wind Energy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Using the 40‐year hourly gridded ERA5 reanalysis, we study the offshore patterns of wind
variability using the probability density function (PDF) and the power spectral density (PSD) …

Fast formation of nitro-PAHs in the marine atmosphere constrained in a regional-scale Lagrangian field experiment

MD Mulder, Y Dumanoglu, C Efstathiou… - Environmental …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and some of their nitrated derivatives, NPAHs, are
seemingly ubiquitous in the atmospheric environment. Atmospheric lifetimes may …

Assimilation of remotely sensed LAI into CLM4CN using DART

XL Ling, CB Fu, WD Guo… - Journal of Advances in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Plant leaves play an important role in water, carbon, and energy exchanges between
terrestrial ecosystems and atmosphere. Assimilating remotely sensed leaf area index (LAI) …

Toward improving short‐term predictions of fine particulate matter over the United States via assimilation of satellite aerosol optical depth retrievals

R Kumar, L Delle Monache, J Bresch… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study develops a new approach to improve simulations of the particulate matter of
aerodynamic diameter smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2. 5) in the Community Multiscale Air Quality …

Does soil moisture have an influence on near‐surface temperature?

J Liu, Z Pu - Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between soil moisture (SM) and temperature at 2‐m height (T2) is
examined with long‐term meteorological and soil observations and a single‐column model …

Evaluation of the performance of the WRF model in a hyper-arid environment: A sensitivity study

R Abida, Y Addad, D Francis, M Temimi, N Nelli… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Accurate simulation of boundary layer surface meteorological parameters is essential to
achieve good forecasting of weather and atmospheric dispersion. This paper is devoted to a …

The smoother the better? A comparison of six post-processing methods to improve short-term offshore wind power forecasts in the Baltic Sea

C Hallgren, S Ivanell, H Körnich… - Wind Energy …, 2021 - wes.copernicus.org
With a rapidly increasing capacity of electricity generation from wind power, the demand for
accurate power production forecasts is growing. To date, most wind power installations have …