Climate Change Slashes Wind Power Potential, New Forecasts Show

Climate change slashes wind power potential, new forecasts show

A new study published in the journal Climatic Change highlights significant shifts in wind patterns across the Middle East due to climate change, with critical implications for the region's wind energy potential. The research, led by Melissa Latt from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, and Dr. Assaf Hochman from the Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, utilizes high-resol…

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Climate change to weaken Middle East wind energy: study

JERUSALEM, May 25 (Xinhua) -- Climate change is projected to reshape wind energy potential across the Middle East, with turbine-height winds weakening despite stronger ground-level breezes, according to a recent Israeli-German study. Read full story

Climate change will produce significant changes in wind patterns in the Middle East in the coming decades, with a reduction in the region's wind power potential. ...

A new study published in Climate Change highlights significant changes in wind patterns across the Middle East due to climate change, with critical implications for the region's wind energy potential. Research, led by Melissa Latt of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, [...]

A recent study published in the journal Climatic Change concluded that climate change can affect wind potential in the Middle East, with the weakening of the winds to 150 meters above the ground, necessary to generate energy. Research led by Melissa Latt of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, and Dr. Assaf Hochman of the Institute of Earth Sciences Fredy and Nadine Herrmann of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, uses high-resol…