Assessment of commercial wind profiles for Bangladesh in hotspots determined by the UNEP

International Journal of Renewable Energy Research

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 290-297

  Roy, Apratim ^a  

^a BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Regime prediction; Weibull distribution; Wind power density distribution (DD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864567816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13090127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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