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DOI	10.1038/s43247-023-01117-5
	Large-scale photovoltaic solar farms in the Sahara affect solar power generation potential globally
	Long, Jingchao; Lu, Zhengyao; Miller, Paul A.; Pongratz, Julia; Guan, Dabo; Smith, Benjamin; Zhu, Zhiwei; Xu, Jianjun; Zhang, Qiong
发表日期	2024
EISSN	2662-4435
起始页码	5
结束页码	1
卷号	5 期号:1
英文摘要	Globally, solar projects are being rapidly built or planned, particularly in high solar potential regions with high energy demand. However, their energy generation potential is highly related to the weather condition. Here we use state-of-the-art Earth system model simulations to investigate how large photovoltaic solar farms in the Sahara Desert could impact the global cloud cover and solar generation potential through disturbed atmospheric teleconnections. The results indicate negative impacts on solar potential in North Africa (locally), Middle East, Southern Europe, India, Eastern China, Japan, Eastern Australia, and Southwestern US, and positive impacts in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Central & Eastern US, Scandinavia and South Africa, reaching a magnitude of +/- 5% in remote regions seasonally. Diagnostics suggest that large-scale atmospheric circulation changes are responsible for the global impacts. International cooperation is essential to mitigate the potential risks of future large-scale solar projects in drylands, which could impact energy production. Large solar farms in the Sahara Desert could redistribute solar power generation potential locally as well as globally through disturbance of large-scale atmospheric teleconnections, according to simulations with an Earth system model.
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001138231900002
来源期刊	COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/293581
作者单位	Guangdong Ocean University; Lund University; Guangdong Ocean University; Guangdong Ocean University; University of Munich; Tsinghua University; Western Sydney University; Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology; Guangdong Ocean University; Stockholm University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Long, Jingchao,Lu, Zhengyao,Miller, Paul A.,et al. Large-scale photovoltaic solar farms in the Sahara affect solar power generation potential globally[J],2024,5(1).
APA	Long, Jingchao.,Lu, Zhengyao.,Miller, Paul A..,Pongratz, Julia.,Guan, Dabo.,...&Zhang, Qiong.(2024).Large-scale photovoltaic solar farms in the Sahara affect solar power generation potential globally.COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT,5(1).
MLA	Long, Jingchao,et al."Large-scale photovoltaic solar farms in the Sahara affect solar power generation potential globally".COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT 5.1(2024).