This paper presents salient results from an ongoing
investigation into wind behaviour and resources
characterisation on the central Mediterranean Maltese
archipelago. The ultimate aim is to enable a more accurate
determination of the potential for electrical wind power
generation in the onshore and inshore marine environments.
One area of this research is seeking to generate longer-term
wind characteristics at selected locations. The strategy used
involves a combination of field measurements at a number of
onshore points and the use of Measure-Correlate-Predict (MCP)
techniques in conjunction with Computational Fluid Dynamics
(CFD) software. This current study will present selected results
from the validation process underway to establish the
performance of MCP and CFD in a sub-tropical island context.peer-reviewe