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Articles | Volume 10, issue 11
Articles | Volume 10, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-2639-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-2639-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 11
Research article
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17 Nov 2025
Research article |  | 17 Nov 2025

Hurricane impacts in the United States East Coast offshore wind energy lease areas

Kelsey B. Thompson, Rebecca J. Barthelmie, and Sara C. Pryor

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Wind turbines in offshore lease areas (LAs) along the eastern US may be impacted by hurricanes. Regional simulations with atmosphere-only and coupled atmosphere–ocean–wave regional models reproduce historical hurricanes well and indicate no exceedance of 50 m s-1 wind speeds in the LAs and only brief periods with low power production. Coupled simulations lead to more intense hurricanes, possibly indicating that previous atmosphere-only simulations underestimate the risk to offshore wind turbines.
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