Spatio-temporal analysis of wind resource in the Iberian Peninsula with data-coupled clustering

Abstract

In this paper a spatio-temporal analysis of wind power resource in the Iberian Peninsula is presented. The study uses the Second-Order Data-Coupled Clustering (SODCC) algorithm over reanalysis data in the for the period 1979 – 2014. Several characteristics of the method are detailed, such as the data-coupled clustering approach of SODCC, that ensures the non-singularity of the signal subspace within each cluster. The performance of the proposed approach and specific results obtained have been discussed in a case study in the Iberian Peninsula. In these results it is possible to identify different spatio-temporal patterns of the wind data statistics depending on the initialization year. Moreover, this work also shows that there is a close relationship between these spatio-temporal patterns with the wind energy production of the area under study, so the proposed analysis can be extended to wind farms efficiency production at the time scales considered.