US East Coast synthetic aperture radar  wind atlas for offshore wind energy

Ahsbahs, Tobias; Maclaurin, Galen; Draxl, Caroline; Jackson, Christopher R.; Monaldo, Frank; Badger, Merete

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1191-2020

Articles | Volume 5, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1191-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1191-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 5, issue 3

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17 Sep 2020

Review article |

| 17 Sep 2020

US East Coast synthetic aperture radar wind atlas for offshore wind energy

Tobias Ahsbahs, Galen Maclaurin, Caroline Draxl, Christopher R. Jackson, Frank Monaldo, and Merete Badger

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