Modifications of the heliosat procedure for irradiance estimates from satellite images

Solar Energy

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 207-212

  Beyer, Hans Georg ^a,b   Costanzo, Claudio ^a,c   Heinemann, Detlev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; SATELLITES;

CLEARNESS INDEX; CORRELATION; HELIOSTAT; SATELLITE OBSERVATION;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 0030094232     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0038-092X(95)00092-6     Document Type: Article

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