Temporal assessment of wind energy resource at four locations in Algerian Sahara

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 76, Issue , 2013, Pages 654-664

  Boudia, Sidi Mohammed ^a,b   Benmansour, Abdelhalim ^b   Ghellai, Nassera ^b   Benmedjahed, Miloud ^a,b   Tabet Hellal, Mohammed Abdellatif ^b  

^a CENTRE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES ENERGIES RENOUVELABLES   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TLEMCEN   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Algerian Sahara; Assessment; Weibull parameters; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGERIAN SAHARA; ASSESSMENT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; TEMPORAL ASSESSMENT; WEIBULL PARAMETERS; WIND CHARACTERISTICS; WIND POWER DENSITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY RESOURCES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND POWER;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 84884155723     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2013.07.086     Document Type: Article

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