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Geophysical potential for wind energy over the open oceans

View ORCID ProfileAnna Possner and View ORCID ProfileKen Caldeira
  1. aDepartment of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305

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PNAS October 24, 2017 114 (43) 11338-11343; first published October 9, 2017; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705710114
Anna Possner
aDepartment of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305
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Ken Caldeira
aDepartment of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305
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  1. Edited by Kerry A. Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and approved August 30, 2017 (received for review April 5, 2017)

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vol. 114 no. 43 11338-11343
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705710114
PubMed: 
29073053

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
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1091-6490
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  • Published in issue October 24, 2017.
  • Published first October 9, 2017.

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  1. Anna Possnera,1 and
  2. Ken Caldeiraa
  1. aDepartment of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305
  1. Edited by Kerry A. Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and approved August 30, 2017 (received for review April 5, 2017)

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  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: apossner{at}carnegiescience.edu.
  • Author contributions: A.P. and K.C. designed research; A.P. performed research; A.P. analyzed data; and A.P. and K.C. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1705710114/-/DCSupplemental.

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