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Research article
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10 Mar 2023
Research article |
| 10 Mar 2023
| 10 Mar 2023
Estimating hub-height wind speed based on a machine learning algorithm: implications for wind energy assessment
Boming Liu
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping
and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Xin Ma
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping
and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of
Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Hui Li
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping
and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Shikuan Jin
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping
and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Yingying Ma
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping
and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Wei Gong
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping
and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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Short summary
Wind energy is one of the most essential clean and renewable forms of energy in today’s world. However, the traditional power law method generally estimates the hub-height wind speed by assuming a constant exponent between surface and hub-height wind speeds. This inevitably leads to significant uncertainties in estimating the wind speed profile. To minimize the uncertainties, we here use a machine learning algorithm known as random forest to estimate the wind speed at hub height.
Wind energy is one of the most essential clean and renewable forms of energy in today’s world....
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