Assessing the suitability of wind speed probability distribution functions based on wind power density

Renewable Energy

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1563-1574

  Celik, A N ^a  

^a MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Standard deviation in estimating the wind energy; Weibull wind speed distribution model; Wind energy estimation; Wind speed probability distribution

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND EFFECTS;

WIND SPEED;

WIND POWER;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; PROBABILITY; WEIBULL THEORY; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 0037411637     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(03)00018-1     Document Type: Article

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