Evaluation of the Wind Energy Potential in the Coastal Environment of Two Enclosed Seas

Table 2

Statistical analysis of the NCEP data, corresponding to the total time (TT) and winter time (WT), respectively. The results cover the ten-year time interval 1999–2008.

		Point
Results	Time interval	Black Sea				Caspian Sea
		B2	B5	B7	B10	C3	C6	C7	C11
(m/s)	TT	6.71	6.04	4.17	4.52	6.31	6.59	5.86	3.91
	WT	7.70	7.00	4.58	4.81	6.63	7.47	6.02	4.20
95% (m/s)	TT	12.37	11.86	8.06	8.93	11.22	12.57	10.42	7.61
	WT	13.28	13.16	8.62	9.53	11.62	13.64	10.73	8.28
Extreme (m/s)	TT	24.81	21.92	16.33	19.39	18.8	18.83	18.49	16.83
	WT	24.81	21.92	16.33	19.39	17.41	18.83	18.49	16.83
Power density (W/m^2)	TT	319.6	260.4	86.05	109.6	251.3	314	198.9	71.5
	WT	436.9	370.7	107.9	131	285.6	426.3	216.6	88.3