Global Warming Could Be Making It Less Windy in Europe

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(Bloomberg) – Global warming shows wind speeds during the European summer, which puts additional pressure on energy systems in the region as high temperatures enhance the demand for cooling, as it shows new research.

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The main researcher Gan Chang, the climate scientist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana, said this phenomenon- known as “stability”- is driven by the enlarged warmth of both the Earth and the Toboosfir, a layer of the closer atmosphere to the surface of the earth. Chambine.

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The decrease in wind speeds, which also occurs in non -other areas in northern latitude such as North America, is expected to be less than 5 % during the period from 2021 to 2050, according to Pashang.

“The energy system is a marginal market,” said Zhang. “This means that if you change the margin by 5 to 10 %, the price response may be huge.”

Low wind speeds emphasize the challenge facing European countries that have moved away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy to intermittent renewable energy, and may put climate targets in the region at risk. The frozen temperatures and days that the wind cannot be exhausted this winter gas stocks in the region, although there is no reliable data yet to show that this is also linked to climate change.

The effects of ripples of small wind speeds highlight a basic shift in Europe from a temperature -based energy market to one wind and sun, according to Kristover Vogel, a wind and island energy researcher at Oxford University.

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He said: “How do things actually behave driven by them, is it sunny, is it a wind?”

Vogel said that the new research on “commitment” during the summer is lining up with other studies indicating that the effect of climate change on wind will become statistically significant in the second half of this century. But it is still unclear how transformations in the speed of medium wind will affect future energy production, and part of uncertainty is that even the Standard Standard Climate Data groups “is not great in capturing extremists” at wind speeds.

Unlike temperature and precipitation records, there is a lack of strong historical wind data that for the model for future climate results. He added that wind measurements are very translated and are easily thrown by the terrain and buildings – even the wind farms themselves.

Although there is no data, Ivan for Sevegardine, who provides the Norway -based commercial forces in Norway, believes that the production of European winds has already seen signs of climate shrinkage.

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He said: “The high pressure often dominated, as it appears often and lasts for a longer period.”

Modern data

The trends become more clear by placing a lower weight on ancient historical climate data and more focus on a smaller group of modern measurements, which accurately reflect the biggest changes in the atmosphere that Europe witnessed due to the high warming temperature.

Zhang of Illinois University said his research team is working on the lack of historical data using multiple data groups and operating simulations that have found an increase in summer.

While Svegaarden said that low wind speeds indicate that European Union policy makers may depend on this type of generation to achieve clean energy goals, Zhang is more optimistic. He said that even with low speeds, the wind could be a major part of the power mix for most countries.

However, both Zhang and VOGEL suggests that Europe may need to be more creative in developing renewable energy-off-generation, and building more connected connections and has reserve sources for electricity-to compensate for the challenges that have reached a decline in wind energy.

“You can not only rely on the wind to solve the UK electricity problems throughout the year, especially if there is a shift when this request will reach its peak throughout the year,” said Vogel.

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