Impact of strong climate change on the seasonal variability of wind power generation.

Relative change of the winter-summer ratio of the average wind power yield 〈R〉DJF/〈R〉JJA (DJF: December-February vs. JJA: June-August) by the end of the century (eoc, 2070-2100) with respect to the historical time frame (h, 1970-2000). The brackets denote the temporal average over the respective winter and summer months. Results are shown for a strong climate change scenario (RCP8.5) for 29 European countries. The color code corresponds to the average of the five models and the hatching indicates the robustness of the results. No hatching: 5/5, striped: 4/5, crossbred: 3/5 models agree on the sign of change.