Conditional weighted combination of wind power forecasts

Wind Energy

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 751-763

  Thordarson, F O ^a   Madsen, H ^a   Nielsen, H Aa ^b   Pinson, P ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ENFOR A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

conditional parametric models; conditional weighted combination; forecasting; linear combination; local regression; wind power

Indexed keywords

AIR; FORECASTING; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; WIND POWER;

CONDITIONAL WEIGHTED COMBINATION; LINEAR COMBINATION MODEL; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LOCAL REGRESSION; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; PARAMETRIC MODELS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; KINETIC ENERGY; PARAMETERIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

EID: 78649675896     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.395     Document Type: Article

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