Analysis of directional meteorological data by means of cylindrical models

Renewable Energy

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 459-473

  Pérez, Isidro A ^a   Angeles Garcia M ^a   Luisa Sanchez M ^a   de Torre, Beatriz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Circular linear; Cylindrical data; Data analysis; Polar coordinates; Wind direction

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS;

CYLINDRICAL DATA; CYLINDRICAL MODELS; POLAR COORDINATES; WIND DIRECTION;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748445204     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2006.01.011     Document Type: Article

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