Adaptive post-processing of short-term wind forecasts for energy applications

Wind Energy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 317-325

  Sweeney, C ^a   Lynch, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

adaptive filtering; NWP; statistical post processing; wind energy; wind forecast

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND; WIND POWER;

ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL METHODS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; POSTPROCESSING METHODS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SHORT TERM WIND FORECAST; STATISTICAL POST PROCESSING; WIND FORECASTS;

PROCESSING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER GENERATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 79955065793     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.420     Document Type: Article

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