Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind electricity systems worldwide

Dan Tong1, Ken Caldeira2, David J Farnham2, Lei Duan2, Nate Lewis3 and Steven J Davis1, (1)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Dept. of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States