Assessment of wind characteristics for energy generation

Energy Sources

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1227-1237

  Ulgen, Koray ^a   Genc, Asir ^b   Hepbasli, Arif ^a   Oturanc, Galip ^b  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Rayleigh distribution; Turkey; Weibull distribution; Weibull parameters; Wind characteristics; Wind data; Wind energy; Wind energy systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746632622     PISSN: 00908312     EISSN: 15210510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00908310390268083     Document Type: Article

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