METSTAT - The solar radiation model used in the production of the national solar radiation data base (NSRDB)

Solar Energy

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 263-279

  Maxwell, E L ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; OZONE; RANDOM PROCESSES; SNOW; STATISTICAL METHODS; VAPORS;

METEOROLOGICAL/STATISTICAL (METSTAT) SOLAR RADIATION MODELS;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 0032053071     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(98)00003-6     Document Type: Article

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