Wind Potential of Bingöl Province and the Impact of Climate Change

The winds are comprised of different heating of different areas by sun are beneficial to move clouds for precipitation and to transport pollen for fertilize of plants and used to generate clean and renewable energy resource. In this study, wind velocity and its change against the climate change is investigated for Bingöl province, Turkey. Furthermore, the continuity of the wind potential according to geographical directions for this city is investigated and the prevailing wind direction is determined. Although there are many studies on wind potential calculation, the determination of climate change and/or urbanization effects on this resource is new and current in the literature. In this study, firstly wind potential in Bingöl province is calculated and then the future behavior of this resource is examined. Innovative trend analysis which is a new trend determination method and used many researchers as well as traditional linear regression and Mann-Kendall methods are used to investigate the climate change and urbanization effects on winds in the city. As a result, northwest winds are prevailed on the city and the wind potential has a decreasing trend and all three methods give consistent results relative to each other.