Wind power characteristics on the North West coast of Saudi Arabia

Energy and Environment

Volumn 20-21, Issue 8-1, 2009, Pages 1257-1270

  Rehman, Shafiqur ^a   Al Abbadi, Naif M ^b  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Energy Research Institute   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Renewable energy; Weibull parameters; Wind energy yield; Wind frequency distribution; Wind shear exponent

Indexed keywords

WIND; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ENERGY YIELDS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; WEIBULL PARAMETERS; WIND SHEARS;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

COASTAL ZONE; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND POWER; WIND SHEAR; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 77149152556     PISSN: 0958305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0958-305X.20/21.8/1.1257     Document Type: Article

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