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What's A Wind Drought? Europe's Lust for the Gust
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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Dec 11, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Dr. Hannah Bloomfield, a Climate Risk Analytics research associate at the University of Bristol, describes an extreme weather event that affected European energy output significantly this year: a wind drought. We discuss how unequal warming between the poles and the equator is potentially leading to a pattern of decreasing mid latitude wind speeds, a phenomenon known as global stilling and the consequences this will have for electric systems that are becoming increasingly reliant on the weather.
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Released:
Dec 11, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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