Improvements in wind speed forecasts for wind power prediction purposes using Kalman filtering

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2348-2362

  Louka, P ^a,b   Galanis, G ^a,c   Siebert, N ^d   Kariniotakis, G ^d   Katsafados, P ^a   Pytharoulis, I ^a,b   Kallos, G ^a  

^a School of Physics   (Greece)

^b Hellenic National Meteorological Service   (Greece)

^c HELLENIC NAVAL ACADEMY   (Greece)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Kalman filtering; Wind power forecasting; Wind speed forecasting

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SPEED; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELLING; CPU TIME; FORECASTING SKILL; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; KALMAN FILTERING; LOWER RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; POST-PROCESSING METHODS; SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION; WIND POWER FORECASTING; WIND POWER PREDICTION; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED FORECASTING;

ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING;

EID: 49749138923     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2008.03.013     Document Type: Article

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