Patent ID: 7228235

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for correlating and predicting wind speed at a test wind farm location, the method comprising the steps of: assembling a first set of meteorological measurements at a test wind farm location over a short-term time period; assembling a second set of meteorological measurements at a plurality of geographic locations other than the test wind farm location over a long-term time period; recording the first and second sets of meteorological measurements on a computer-readable medium; correlating the first and second sets of meteorological measurements during at least a portion of the short-term time period using at least one computer-implemented non-linear mathematical method to determine a non-linear pattern of relationships between time-based subsets of each the first and second sets of meteorological measurements that accurately predicts each time-based subset of the first set of meteorological measurements from only a corresponding time-based subset of the second set of meteorological measurements; predicting a set of meteorological conditions at the test wind farm location for at least a portion of the long-term time period not including the short-term time period using the second set of meteorological measurements and the determined non-linear pattern of relationships, the set of meteorological conditions comprising a wind speed; and determining a suitability of the test wind farm location based at least in part on the step of predicting, and providing a visual representation thereof.