Wind Energy and Wind Speed Analysis: My current research in environmental physics is principally in the area of extreme value analysis where statistical techniques in Extreme Value Theory (EVT) are applied to wind and temperature time series.  Critical to the extraction of electric power from wind is an understanding of wind speed distributions.  In particular, wind energy developers require detailed knowledge of the extreme wind speed tail.  In collaboration with Prof. Jean Palutikof at the Climatic Research Unit (University of East Anglia, UK) I have applied statistical strategies in EVT to wind speed data in the UK.  So far, we have one publication and one paper in press in this area.

Published: A REVIEW OF METHODS TO CALCUALTE EXTREME WIND SPEEDS, .J.P. Palutikof, B.B.Brabson, D.H. Lister, S.T. Adcock (Meteorological Applications, v.6 n.2, p119, June 1, 1999).
TESTS OF THE GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTION FOR PREDICTING EXREME WIND SPEEDS, B.B. Brabson & J.P. Palutikof, (Journal of Applied Meteorology, 39, 1627-1640, September 2000).

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