A new probabilistic method to estimate the long-term wind speed characteristics at a potential wind energy conversion site

Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2671-2685

  Carta, José A ^a   Velázquez, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coefficient of determination; Conditional distributions; Measure correlate predict method; Root relative squared error; Stratified cross validation; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENERGY CONVERSION; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; SPEED; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER;

COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; CROSS VALIDATION; MEASURE-CORRELATE-PREDICT; ROOT RELATIVE SQUARED ERROR; WIND SPEED;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CORRELATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; TURBINE; WEATHER STATION; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

CANARY ISLANDS; SPAIN;

EID: 79955675448     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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