Wind energy assessment: Masdar City case study

Renewable Energy

Volumn 52, Issue , 2013, Pages 8-15

  Janajreh, Isam ^a   Su, Liu ^a   Alan, Fathi ^b  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

FFT; HAWT; Wavelet; Weibull; Wind modeling; Windspot

Indexed keywords

HAWT; WAVELET; WEIBULL; WIND MODELING; WINDSPOT;

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PERIODICITY; POWER LAW; WEIBULL THEORY; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND POWER; WIND PROFILE; WIND TURBINE;

ABU DHABI [UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]; MASDAR; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84868639263     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.09.025     Document Type: Article

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