Wind resource assessment of an area using short term data correlated to a long term data set

Solar Energy

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 725-732

  Bechrakis, D A ^a   Deane, J P ^a   McKeogh, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Correlation; Energy assessment; Neural networks; Simulation; Wind

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; EXTRAPOLATION; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; NEURAL NETWORKS; TOPOLOGY; TURBINES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CROSS-CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; WIND ENERGY RESOURCE;

WIND POWER;

ENERGY; NEURAL NETWORK; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 1642373132     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2004.01.004     Document Type: Article

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