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Cumulative hydrodynamic impacts of offshore wind farms on North Sea currents and surface temperatures
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What are the consequences of offshore wind farms on the temperature and currents of the North Sea? And how does further expansion have an impact? Researchers have now examined this in more detail. It has been shown that the wind farms above and below water have opposite effects on temperature, currents and the mixing of water. Which effects do dominate depends on the location and density of the wind turbines. This should therefore be taken into …
Cumulative hydrodynamic impacts of offshore wind farms on North Sea currents and surface temperatures
Abstract. Offshore wind farms are increasingly shaping coastal ocean dynamics, yet their cumulative physical impacts remain poorly quantified. Using decade-long, high-resolution simulations of the North Sea, we show that large-scale offshore wind development can reduce current velocities by up to 20% and reshape local tidal energy distributions. Wind and tidal wakes exert distinct but interacting influences on ocean physics: wind speed anomalies…
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