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Putting wind resource atlases to useAn assessment of an area's wind resource and proper site selection are critical to the successful utilization of wind energy. How the twelve recently published wind energy resource atlases for the United States and its territories can be used to evaluate in the atlas on various geographic scales (regional, state and station) and time scales (annual, seasonal and diurnal) is discussed. In addition to techniques for extracting the magnitude of the wind resource, methods are presented for estimating the seasonal and diurnal variations of the wind resource for an area, the certainty with which the resource has been estimated and the fraction of land area with a given wind resource.
Document ID
19830010966
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Elliott, D. L.
(Pacific Northwest Lab. Richland, WA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 11, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1982
Publication Information
Publication: NASA. Lewis Research Center Large Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbines
Subject Category
Energy Production And Conversion
Accession Number
83N19237
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: DE-AC06-76RL-01830
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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