Wind energy resource assessment for five locations in Saudi Arabia

Renewable Energy

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1489-1499

  Al Abbadi, Naif M ^a  

^a King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Energy Research Institute   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Saudi Arabia; Wind data; Wind energy; Wind power density; Wind resources assessment; Wind rose

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRIC LOADS; FREQUENCIES; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

SAUDI ARABIA; WIND ENERGY RESOURCES; WIND SPEED;

WIND POWER;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; WIND POWER POTENTIAL; WIND VELOCITY;

ENERGY RESOURCE; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; SAUDI ARABIA; WORLD;

EID: 15744382536     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2004.11.013     Document Type: Article

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