Offshore wind resource estimation from satellite SAR wind field maps

Wind Energy

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 403-419

  Hasager, C B ^a   Nielsen, M ^a   Astrup, P ^a   Barthelmie, R ^a   Dellwik, E ^a   Jensen, N O ^a   Jorgensen B H ^a   Pryor, S C ^b   Rathmann, O ^a   Furevik, B R ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Coastal winds; Offshore wind; Satellite; WAsP; Wind climate; Wind resource

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COASTAL WINDS; OFFSHORE WIND; WASP; WIND CLIMATE; WIND RESOURCES;

WIND POWER;

OFFSHORE APPLICATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND POWER;

EID: 29044433721     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.150     Document Type: Article

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