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Articles | Volume 1, issue 2
Articles | Volume 1, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-1-115-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-1-115-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 1, issue 2
Research article
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24 Aug 2016
Research article |  | 24 Aug 2016

Year-to-year correlation, record length, and overconfidence in wind resource assessment

Nicola Bodini, Julie K. Lundquist, Dino Zardi, and Mark Handschy

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Year-to-year variability of wind speeds limits the certainty of wind-plant preconstruction energy estimates ("resource assessments"). Using 62-year records from 60 stations across Canada we show that resource highs and lows persist for decades, which makes estimates 2–3 times less certain than if annual levels were uncorrelated. Comparing chronological data records with randomly permuted versions of the same data reveals this in an unambiguous and easy-to-understand way.
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