Survey and assessment of wind-speed and wind-power in Egypt, including air density variation

Wind Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 95-106

  Essa, Khaled S M ^a   Mubarak, Fawzia ^b  

^a HOT LABORATORIES CENTER   (Egypt)

^b NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Air density; Wind energy potential

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; SPEED; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND POWER;

DATA DISTRIBUTIONS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; WIND-SPEED;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; SPEED; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND; WIND POWER;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; PROBABILITY; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

AFRICA; ASIA; EGYPT; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIAN OCEAN; JAPAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH AFRICA; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; SETO INLAND SEA;

EID: 33747644114     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: 0309524X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/030952406778055081     Document Type: Article

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