Class generation for numerical wind atlases

Wind Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 401-415

  Cutler, N J ^a   Jorgensen B H ^a   Ersboll B K ^a   Badger, J ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clustering; Egypt; Ireland; Mesoscale model; WAsP; Wind atlas

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; VELOCITY;

CLUSTERING; EGYPT; IRELAND; MESOSCALE MODEL; WIND ATLAS;

WIND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; VELOCITY; WIND;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

AFRICA; EGYPT; EURASIA; EUROPE; GULF OF SUEZ; INDIAN OCEAN; IRELAND; NORTH AFRICA; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846481043     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/030952406779502704     Document Type: Article

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