On the clear sky model of the ESRA - European Solar Radiation Atlas - With respect to the Heliosat method

Solar Energy

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-48

  Rigollier, Christelle ^a   Bauer, Olivier ^a   Wald, Lucien ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIOSTATS (INSTRUMENTS); IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES;

SATELLITE IMAGES;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 0033883286     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(99)00055-9     Document Type: Article

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