Articles | Volume 13, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4993-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4993-2020
Model description paper
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22 Oct 2020
Model description paper |  | 22 Oct 2020

The Kinetic Energy Budget of the Atmosphere (KEBA) model 1.0: a simple yet physical approach for estimating regional wind energy resource potentials that includes the kinetic energy removal effect by wind turbines

Axel Kleidon and Lee M. Miller

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When winds are used as renewable energy by more and more wind turbines, one needs to account for the effect of wind turbines on the atmospheric flow. The Kinetic Energy Budget of the Atmosphere (KEBA) model provides a simple, physics-based approach to account for this effect very well when compared to much more detailed numerical simulations with an atmospheric model. KEBA should be useful to derive lower, more realistic wind energy resource potentials of different regions.