Wied rini II-A five year wind survey at Malta

Wind Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 419-432

  Farrugia, Robert ^a   Sant, Tonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

Malta; Mediterranean basin; Wied Rini; wind resources

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; DATA SETS; ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; MALTA; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; NCEP/NCAR; PROJECT DEVELOPMENT; REANALYSIS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY; TWO-POINT; WIED RINI; WIND CHARACTERISTICS; WIND DATA; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND GENERATION; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND MONITORING; WIND RESOURCES; WIND SPEED;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; MONITORING; WIND POWER;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

MALTA;

EID: 80052875963     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0309-524X.35.4.419     Document Type: Article

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