Análise dos padr？es de vento no Estado de Alagoas

aiming to evaluate areas with good prospects for harnessing wind power, the patterns of wind speed and direction measured at anemometric towers within the atlas eólico e dissemina？？o da tecnologia eólica no estado de alagoas project were compared for the period from 12/2007 to 11/2008, at alagoas state. we analyzed three distinct regions: coast, agreste and sert？o. the patterns with higher average wind speeds were in the agreste regions (7.1 ± 1.2 ms-1 monthly) followed by sert？o (6.8 ± 0.9 ms- 1 monthly) and by coast (5.3 ± 0.8 ms-1 monthly). the regularity of the wind speed and the low variability of wind direction make alagoas be a great option for the installation of wind turbines.