Research Article

On the Wind Energy Resource and Its Trend in the East China Sea

Table 2

Monthly and annual mean Weibull parameters, wind power density, wind speed, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation.

Month (m/s)WPD (w/m2) (m/s)σcov (%)

Jan3.228.74429.257.842.8336.45
Feb2.948.22374.727.342.9239.98
Mar2.677.28274.816.492.7842.97
Apr2.626.38192.245.682.5344.65
May2.55.79148.75.152.446.85
Jun2.556.08174.575.422.5447.2
Jul2.276.3215.885.612.9452.63
Aug2.096.47257.975.763.2656.64
Sep2.216.56246.585.843.0852.9
Oct2.777.76342.156.932.9943.75
Nov3.188.69444.387.82.9538.59
Dec3.369.17504.218.242.9436.51
Annual2.697.28300.456.512.8544.93