Energy Conversion and Management, Vol.43, No.17, 2311-2318, 2002
Estimating wind speed distribution
The Weibull distribution is used to model wind speeds at four locations in Oman. The scale and shape parameters were estimated using three methods, the Chi-square method, method of moments and regression method. It was observed that the estimates using the Chi-squared method gave the best overall fit to the distribution of the wind data. Both the scale and shape parameters varied widely over the months.
Keywords:Chi-square;Kolmogorov-Smirnov;method of moments;regression method;simplex algorithm;Weibull distribution