Large-scale winds in the southern North Sea region: The wind part of the KNMI'14 climate change scenarios
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2015-03-01
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Sterl, Andreas
Bakker, A
van den Brink, H
Haarsma, Reindert J.
Stepek, A
Wijnant, I
de Winter, Renske
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The wind climate and its possible change in a warming world are important topics for many applications, among which are marine and coastal safety and wind energy generation. Therefore, wind is an important variable to investigate for climate change scenarios. In developing the wind part of the KNMI'14 climate change scenarios, output from several model categories have been analysed, ranging from global General Circulation Models via regional climate model (RCMs) to suitably re-sampled RCM output. The main conclusion is that global warming will not change the wind climate over the Netherlands and the North Sea beyond the large range of natural climate variability that has been experienced in the past.
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climate change scenario, Netherlands, wind, SDG 13 - Climate Action, SDG 14 - Life Below Water
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Sterl, A, Bakker, A, van den Brink, H, Haarsma, R J, Stepek, A, Wijnant, I & de Winter, R C 2015, 'Large-scale winds in the southern North Sea region: The wind part of the KNMI'14 climate change scenarios', Environmental Research Letters, vol. 10, no. 3, 035004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/035004