Wind speed estimation uncertainties: Effects of climatological and micrometeorological parameters

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 361-371

  Diniz, Sofia M C ^a,b   Sadek, Fahim ^b   Simiu, Emil ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Building technology; Database assisted design; Monte Carlo simulation; Sampling errors; Terrain roughness; Uncertainties; Wind speeds

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SAMPLING; WIND;

BUILDING TECHNOLOGY; DATABASE-ASSISTED DESIGN; SAMPLING ERRORS; TERRAIN ROUGHNESS; UNCERTAINTIES; WIND SPEEDS;

UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

EID: 4644362685     PISSN: 02668920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.probengmech.2004.03.003     Document Type: Article

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