Advances in Meteorology

Research Article

Multidimensional Meteorological Variables for Wind Speed Forecasting in Qinghai Region of China: A Novel Approach

Table 1

Training sets and forecasting sets for hourly wind speed data at six sites.


Season	Training set (size: 20 × 24 = 480)	Forecasting set (size: 5 × 24 = 120)	Relative meteorological factors

Spring (Mar., Apr., and May)	Mar. 9^th, Mar. 12^th, Mar. 19^th, and Mar. 21^st	May 16^th and May 20^th	Temperature, pressure, precipitable water, and wind direction
	Mar. 26^th, Mar. 29^th, Apr. 5^th, and Apr. 6^th	May 25^th, May 28^th, and May 29^th
	Apr. 13^th, Apr. 15^th, Apr. 16^th, and Apr. 21^st
	Apr. 22^nd, Apr. 23^th, Apr. 24^th, and Apr. 25^th
	Apr. 28^th, May 1^st, May 8^th, and May 9^th
Summer (Jun., Jul., and Aug.)	Jun. 1^st, Jun. 3^rd, Jun. 4^th, and Jun. 6^th	Aug. 12^th and Aug. 20^th
	Jun. 13^th, Jun. 16^th, Jun. 22^nd, and Jun. 28^th	Aug. 22^nd, Aug. 24^th, and Aug. 25^th
	Jun. 30^th, Jul. 2^nd, Jul. 7^th, and Jul. 13^th
	Jul. 15^th, Jul. 18^th, Jul. 22^nd, and Jul. 28^th
	Jul. 31^st, Aug. 1^st, Aug. 3^rd, and Aug. 11^th
Autumn (Sep., Oct., and Nov.)	Sep. 3^rd, Sep. 6^th, Sep. 8^th, and Sep. 11^th	Nov. 18^th and Nov. 23^rd
	Sep. 14^th, Sep. 15^th, Sep. 21^st, and Sep. 24^th	Nov. 24^th, Nov. 27^th, and Nov. 29^th
	Sep. 30^th, Oct. 4^th, Oct. 6^th, and Oct. 13^th
	Oct. 18^th, Oct. 31^st, Nov. 2^nd, and Nov. 3^rd
	Nov. 4^th, Nov. 8^th, Nov. 12^th, and Nov. 14^th
Winter (Dec., Jan., and Feb.)	Dec. 2^nd, Dec. 3^rd, Dec. 4^th, and Dec 8^th	Feb. 7^th and Feb. 8^th
	Dec. 9^th, Dec. 13^th, Dec. 14^th, and Dec. 18^th	Feb. 15^th, Feb. 24^th, and Feb. 26^th
	Dec. 20^th, Dec. 25^th, Dec. 26^th, and Dec. 29^th
	Dec. 30^th, Jan. 5^th, Jan. 8^th, and Jan 9^th
	Jan. 16^th, Jan. 18^th, Jan. 28^th, and Feb. 5^th