Statistical Methods for Quantifying the Effect of the El Niño—Southern Oscillation on Wind Power in the Northern Great Plains of the United States:

摘要: The El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon is a well-known source of inter-annual climate variability for both precipitation and temperature in the northern Great Plains United States. In order to determine if ENSO has similar impacts on wind speed power, we applied statistical methods, including sign test resampling, hourly airport measurements past half century at two airports North Dakota another South Dakota. There strong evidence that small effect speeds some months, which affects amount power typical utility scale turbine can produce. During Nino phase, found monthly mean production decrease generally, consistent with decreasing probability low-speed event increasing, locations connection was weaker harder detect Dakota, but ch...