A perfect prognosis downscaling methodology for seasonal prediction of local-scale wind speeds

Authors acknowledge the funding support from project INDECIS co-funded by the H2020 ERA-net ERA4CS (GA 690462) and the MICINN Grant No. BES-2017-082216 ('Ayudas para contratos predoctorales'). The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) is also acknowledged for providing seasonal predictions from several European meteorological centres, and the ERA5 reanalysis. We also thank the developers of the R packages SpecsVerification, easyVerification and CSTools. Finally, we want to express our gratitude to the 17 tall tower data providers, namely, the CESAR observatory, the Crown State, Met Eireann, the BMWi (Bundesministerium fuer Wirtschaft und Energie, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy), the PTJ (Projekttraeger Juelich, project executing organization); and Principal Investigators Dr Fred Bosveld, Dr Ingo Lange, Dr Laszlo Haszpra, Dr Jan Schween and Dr Frank Beyrich. This article benefited from useful comments and feedback from three anonymous reviewers.