The impacts of atmospheric stability on the accuracy of wind speed extrapolation methods

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Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 81-105

  Newman, Jennifer F ^a   Klein, Petra M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer wind profile; Power law; Similarity theory; Stability correction; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901026335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/resources3010081     Document Type: Article

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