Classification of wind speed distributions using a mixture of Dirichlet distributions

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3091-3097

  Calif, Rudy ^a   Emilion, Richard ^b   Soubdhan, Ted ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE GUYANE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

Mixture of dirichlet distribution; Wind regimes classification; Wind speed distribution; Wind speed fluctuations

Indexed keywords

DIRICHLET DISTRIBUTIONS; DISRUPTIVE EFFECTS; ELECTRICAL POWER; FINITE MIXTURES; GUADELOUPE; HIGH VARIABILITY; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; POWER OUT PUT; POWER SHORTAGE; RAPID VARIATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SAEM ALGORITHM; SHORT TIME INTERVALS; WIND ENERGY PRODUCTION; WIND REGIMES CLASSIFICATION; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED DISTRIBUTION; WIND SPEED FLUCTUATIONS;

MIXTURES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPEED; WIND POWER;

WIND EFFECTS;

ALGORITHM; ELECTRICAL POWER; ISLAND; METEOROLOGY; POWER GENERATION; PROBABILITY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

GUADELOUPE; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES];

EID: 79957808679     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.03.024     Document Type: Article

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