On the distributional parameters used in assessment of the suitability of wind speed probability density functions

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 45, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 1735-1747

  Celik, Ali Naci ^a  

^a MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Weibull and Rayleigh functions; Wind energy; Wind speed probability density distribution

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPEED; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

POWER DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAYLEIGH FUNCTIONS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 1542538889     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2003.09.027     Document Type: Article

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