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"This book is a welcome attempt to quantify the meteorological aspects of the wind power available within the parts of Europe belonging to the European Community. The economic viability of generating electricity from the wind is very dependent on not only the mean wind speed but also the distribution of the wind speed at a location. This book addresses this with an examination of 10 years' data from 220 meteorological stations across Europe." K.L. Simms, Weather (1)
"The European Wind Atlas ... uses high quality surface wind observations as its primary data source. The key factor in the development of the atlas has been to transform the measured winds at specific sites into regionally representative values and climatologies. It is this step which sets this work apart from most other wind energy resource studies and has led to a consistent and reliable atlas...
Notwithstanding the weight, I strongly recommend the Atlas to all interested in wind energy and wind climatologies and, for other readers of Boundary-Layer Meteorology, I commend this as an example of the successful, well documented analysis of a complex micro-meteorological issue." P. Taylor, Boundary-Layer Meteorology (2)
"While wind energy research in the United States starved from lack of funding during the last decade, progress continued in Europe. Denmark established a reputation for designing and manufacturing the world's finest modern wind turbines. The publication of the European Wind Atlas by the Ris๘ Laboratory now confirms Denmark as a world leader in wind resource assessment as well... As the twentyfirst century approaches and the environmental wounds of fossil fuel consumption become more severe, wind and solar energy alternatives will certainly become more attractive. The European Wind Atlas is an important contribution toward the utilization of a major renewable energy resource. It is an essential reference for scientists and engineers involved with wind energy work in Europe as well as for serious students of Europe's climate. It can also serve world-wide as a guide for sophisticated wind energy resource assessment." B. Martner , Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (3)
(1) Weather is published by the Royal Meteorological Society. (2) Reprinted by permission of Kluwer Academic Publishers. (3) Reprinted by permission of the American Meteorological Society.