Forecasting wind speed data by using a combination of ARIMA model with single exponential smoothing

Wind serves as natural resources as the solution to minimize global warming and has been commonly used to produce electricity. Because of their uncontrollable wind characteristics, wind speed forecasting is considered one of the best challenges in developing power generation. The Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA), Simple Exponential Smoothing (SES) and a hybrid model combination of ARIMA and SES will be used in this study to predict the wind speed. The mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and the root mean square error (RMSE) are used as measurement of efficiency. The hybrid model provides a positive outcome for predicting wind speed compare to the single model of ARIMA and SES

Meteorological multivariable approximation and prediction with classical VAR-DCC approach

The vector autoregressive (VAR) approach is useful in many situations involving model development for multivariables time series. VAR model was utilised in this study and applied in modelling and forecasting four meteorological variables. The variables are n rainfall data, humidity, wind speed and temperature. However, the model failed to address the heteroscedasticity problem found in the variables, as such, multivariate GARCH, namely, dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) was incorporated in the VAR model to confiscate the problem of heteroscedasticity. The results showed that the use of the VAR coupled with the recognition of time-varying variances DCC produced good forecasts over long forecasting horizons as compared with VAR model alone