Preliminary study of long-term wind characteristics of the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1773-1780

  Soler Bientz, Rolando ^a,b   Watson, Simon ^a   Infield, David ^c  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Autonomous University   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Monthly wind pattern; Weibull distribution; Wind power density; Wind resource assessment; Wind rose

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENTS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; LATIN AMERICANS; ME-XICO; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS; MONTHLY WIND PATTERN; POWER POTENTIALS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; RESOURCE EVALUATIONS; STUDY SITES; WEIBULL PARAMETERS; WIND CHARACTERISTICS; WIND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT; WIND POWER DENSITY; WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; WIND RESOURCES; WIND SPEED DATUM;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

WIND POWER;

EID: 65649151475     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2009.03.018     Document Type: Article

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