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Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1679-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1679-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
Research article
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02 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 02 Dec 2020

The most similar predictor – on selecting measurement locations for wind resource assessment

Andreas Bechmann, Juan Pablo M. Leon, Bjarke T. Olsen, and Yavor V. Hristov

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When assessing wind resources for wind farm development, the first step is to measure the wind from tall meteorological masts. As met masts are expensive, they are not built at every planned wind turbine position but sparsely while trying to minimize the distance. However, this paper shows that it is better to focus on the similarity between the met mast and the wind turbines than the distance. Met masts at similar positions reduce the uncertainty of wind resource assessments significantly.
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