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Multipoint reconstruction of wind speeds
Christian Behnken
Institute of Physics/ForWind, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Matthias Wächter
Institute of Physics/ForWind, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Institute of Physics/ForWind, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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We extend the common characterisation and modelling of wind time series with respect to higher-order statistics. We present an approach which enables us to obtain the general multipoint statistics of wind time series measured. This work is an important step in a more comprehensive description of wind also including extreme events. Important is that we show how stochastic equations can be derived from measured wind data which can be used to model long time series.
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