Assessment of the method used to construct clearness index maps for the new European solar radiation atlas (ESRA)

Solar Energy

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 389-397

  Beyer, Hans Georg ^a   Czeplak, Gerhard ^b   Terzenbach, Uwe ^b   Wald, Lucien ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

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EID: 0031426367     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(97)00084-4     Document Type: Article

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