Quality of wind speed fitting distributions for the urban area of Palermo, Italy

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1026-1039

  Lo Brano, Valerio ^a   Orioli, Aldo ^a   Ciulla, Giuseppina ^a   Culotta, Simona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Burr distribution; Maximum likelihood method; Urban wind speed distribution; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

BURR DISTRIBUTIONS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; IF THERE ARE; INVERSE GAUSSIAN; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV; LOG-NORMAL; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; MONITORING NETWORK; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; RAYLEIGH; SCALE PARAMETER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN AREAS; URBAN WIND SPEED DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER STATIONS; WEIBULL; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED DATA;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPEED; STATISTICAL TESTS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES; WIND EFFECTS;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

DATA INTERPRETATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MONITORING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; URBAN REGION; WEATHER STATION; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

ITALY; PALERMO [PALERMO (PRV)]; PALERMO [SICILY]; SICILY;

EID: 77958198848     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.09.009     Document Type: Article

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