TY - JOUR AU - Lira, Marcos Antonio Tavares AU - Moita Neto, José Machado AU - Silva, Emerson Mariano da AU - Sombra, Bruno Pires PY - 2016/07/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - QUANTIFICATION OF WIND RESOURCES IN THE STATE OF PIAUÍ THROUGH COMPUTER SIMULATIONS JF - Ciência e Natura JA - CeN VL - 38 IS - SE - Special Edition DO - 10.5902/2179460X20195 UR - https://periodicos.ufsm.br/cienciaenatura/article/view/20195 SP - 245-251 AB - <p>Wind energy has been prominent in the global context to be a clean energy source and an alternative to the use of conventional sources. As the variability of wind speed and direction depends on climatic conditions, the development of tools that can estimate these quantities have singular role. Thus, this study aims to estimate the wind profile of the state of Piauí through computer simulations using the atmospheric model BRAMS. It was also possible to highlight the wind vector field and the areas of greatest wind potential through computer generated maps.</p> ER -