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The effect of a giant wind farm on precipitation in a regional climate model

Abstract

The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is employed as a nested regional climate model to study the effect of a giant wind farm on warm-season precipitation in the eastern two-thirds of the USA. The boundary conditions to WRF are supplied by 62 years of NCEP/NCAR global reanalysis. In the model, the presence of a mid-west wind farm, either giant or small, can have an enormous impact on the weather and the rainfall amount for one season, consistent with the known sensitivity of long-term weather forecasts to initial conditions. The effect on climate is less. In the average precipitation of 62 warms seasons, there is a statistically-significant 1.0% enhancement of precipitation in a multi-state area surrounding and to the south-east of the wind farm.

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document

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http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d72r3s57

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eng

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publication

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2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

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publication

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2011-10-21T00:00:00Z

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OpenSky Support

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UCAR/NCAR - Library

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PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

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opensky@ucar.edu

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http://opensky.ucar.edu/

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