Surface Wind-Speed Statistics Modelling: Alternatives to the Weibull Distribution and Performance Evaluation

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 97-123

  Drobinski, Philippe ^a   Coulais, Corentin ^b   Jourdier, Bénédicte ^a,c  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c French Environment and Energy Management Agency   (France)

Author keywords

Super statistics; Surface wind; Wind anisotropy; Wind extremes; Wind regimes

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); METEOROLOGY; WIND;

METEOROLOGICAL DATA; NON-GAUSSIAN FLUCTUATIONS; RICE DISTRIBUTION; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SURFACE WIND SPEED; SURFACE WINDS; WIND REGIME; WIND SPEED DISTRIBUTION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DIURNAL VARIATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WIND; WEIBULL THEORY; WIND VELOCITY;

FRANCE;

EID: 84940957618     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: 15731472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-015-0035-7     Document Type: Article

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