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John Florio

More good news for wind farms.  They may increase the global temperature…

Using a climate model developed by the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, the researchers simulated the aerodynamic effects of large-scale wind farms — located both on land and on the ocean — to analyze how the atmosphere, ocean and land would respond over a 60-year span.

For the land analysis, they simulated the effects of wind farms by using data about how objects similar to turbines, such as undulating hills and clumps of trees, affect surface “roughness,” or friction that can disturb wind flow. After adding this data to the model, the researchers observed that the surface air temperature over the wind farm regions increased by about one degree Celsius, which averages out to an increase of .15 degrees Celsius over the entire global surface

http://www.outlookseries.com/N6/Science/2878_Ron_Prinn_MIT_Wind_Turbines_Temperatures_Rise_Ron_Prinn.htm

http://www.impactlab.com/2010/03/13/mit-analysis-suggests-large-scale-wind-farms-could-impact-climate/

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