Weibull-k Revisited: "Tall" Profiles and Height Variation of Wind Statistics

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 107-124

  Kelly, Mark ^a   Troen, Ib ^a   Jørgensen, Hans E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atmospheric stability; Boundary layer depth; Weibull statistics; Wind energy; Wind profiles

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; WIND; WIND POWER;

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; BOUNDARY-LAYER DEPTH; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; MEAN WIND PROFILES; NATIONAL LABORATORY; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; WEIBULL STATISTICS; WIND PROFILES;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; PROBABILITY; WEIBULL THEORY; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84903138444     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-014-9915-5     Document Type: Article

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