Wind speed and power characteristics for Jubail industrial city, Saudi Arabia

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 1193-1204

  Baseer, M A ^a,b   Meyer, J P ^a   Alam, Md Mahbub ^c   Rehman, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b JUBAIL INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE   (Saudi Arabia)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Capacity factor; Frequency distribution; Weibull parameters; Wind rose; Wind shear exponent; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

SPEED; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER; WIND SPEED;

ABOVE GROUND LEVEL; CAPACITY FACTORS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; INDUSTRIAL CITY; POWER; WEIBULL PARAMETERS; WIND ROSE; WIND SHEAR EXPONENT; WIND SHEARS; WIND SPEED;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84939815718     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.07.109     Document Type: Review

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