Comparative analysis of estimators for wind direction standard deviation

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-41

  Farrugia, Pierre Sandre ^a   Micallef, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

Angular standard deviation; Circular variables; Estimator; Wind direction

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL STORAGE; STATISTICS;

CENTRE OF GRAVITY; CIRCULAR VARIABLES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; ESTIMATOR; REMOTE DATA ACQUISITION; STANDARD DEVIATION; STORAGE CAPACITY; WIND DIRECTIONS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WIND DIRECTION;

EID: 33748132646     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482705001982     Document Type: Article

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