Changes in Surface Wind Speed over North America from CMIP5 Model Projections and Implications for Wind Energy
Figure 6
Detailed maps of the 10 m velocity fields for selected regions from the EC-Earth model simulations in CMIP5. (a) shows the 20th century historical runs and (b) the 21st century RCP 8.5 runs. Both are the average over the last two decades of the respective runs, and over summer (JJA) only. Top: Central United States. Bottom: the East Coast of the United States. The arrows indicate the climatological wind field and the color shading indicates the magnitude of the wind vectors shown. The color scale for the latter, in m/s, is shown at the bottom.
