Creating the dataset for the western wind and solar integration study (U.S.A.)

Wind Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 325-338

  Potter, Cameron W ^a   Lew, Debra ^b   McCaa, Jim ^a   Cheng, Sam ^a   Eichelberger, Scott ^a   Grimit, Eric ^a  

^a 3TIER Pacific Rim ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND POWER;

MESO-SCALE MODELING; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MITIGATION OPTIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; POTENTIAL WIND POWER GENERATION; REGIONAL INTEGRATION; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WIND ENERGY PRODUCTION;

INTEGRATION;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER GENERATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND POWER;

EID: 67650089726     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0309-524X.32.4.325     Document Type: Article

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