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Wind Energy Meteorology

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The principal origin of the winds in the Earth’s atmosphere and the potentially available power from these winds have been qualitatively described in Chap. 1.4.

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Emeis, S. (2018). Wind Regimes. In: Wind Energy Meteorology. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72859-9_2

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