Estimation of local near-surface wind conditions - A comparison of WASP and regression based techniques

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 211-221

  Achberger, C ^a   Ekstrom M ^b   Barring L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Department of Physical Geography ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS;

AGRICULTURAL SITES; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOSTROPHIC WINDS; MESOSCALE ANALYSIS; NEAR-SURFACE WINDS; RELATIVE FREQUENCIES; RELIABLE RESULTS; VECTOR CORRELATIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE WIND; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND VELOCITY;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0042194464     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482702002062     Document Type: Article

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