Dynamical Downscaling of Climate Change Impacts on Wind Energy Resources in the Contiguous United States by Using a Limited-Area Model with Scale-Selective Data Assimilation
Table 2
Annual mean wind speed comparison of SSDA downscaled CCSM3 data, CCSM3 raw data, and NARR data to station observations for current climate (1990–1999). Also, the standard error (SE) is shown for the observations, CCSM3, SSDA, and NARR data sets for all 30 stations as well as the 15 selected stations with wind speeds >6 m s−1. Mean absolute error (MAE) for average annual wind speed for current climate (1990–1999) between raw CCSM3 data, SSDA data, and NARR data all compared to the station data. Also, the MAE for average annual wind speed greater than 6 m s−1 is calculated.