Wind energy potential assessment in Naxos Island, Greece

Applied Energy

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 577-586

  Fyrippis, Ioannis ^a   Axaopoulos, Petros J ^a   Panayiotou, Gregoris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea Greece; Distribution; Weibull Rayleigh; Wind potential; Wind speed Wind power density

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; WIND; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER;

AEGEAN SEA; DISTRIBUTION; RAYLEIGH; WIND POTENTIAL; WIND POWER DENSITY;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

RAYLEIGH NUMBER; WEIBULL THEORY; WIND DIRECTION; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

CYCLADAS; GREECE; NAXOS; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

EID: 75449105081     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2009.05.031     Document Type: Article

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