New approaches for estimating global solar radiation across Sudan

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 419-434

  Elagib, Nadir Ahmed ^a   Mansell, Martin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geographical parameters; Global solar radiation estimation; Monthly specfic equations; Sudan; Sunshine hours

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

GLOBAL SOLAR RADIATION ESTIMATION; MONTHLY SPECIFIC EQUATION;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 0033905168     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-8904(99)00123-5     Document Type: Article

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