Mesoscale wind climate analysis: Identification of anemological regions and wind regimes

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 629-641

  Burlando, M ^a,b   Antonelli, M ^a,b   Ratto, C F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b National Consortium of Universities for Physics of Atmosphere and Hydrosphere (CINFAI)   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anemological regions; Hierarchical and partitional clustering; Mesoscale wind climate; Wind regimes

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS;

ANEMOLOGICAL REGIONS; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; MESOSCALE WIND CLIMATE; PARTITIONAL CLUSTERING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANEMOMETER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COASTAL ZONE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; WIND FIELD; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

CORSE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 42949145979     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1561     Document Type: Article

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