Estimating mean monthly incident solar radiation on horizontal and inclined slopes from mean monthly temperatures extremes

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 204-211

  Coops, N C ^a   Waring, R H ^b   Moncrieff, J B ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Minimum and maximum temperature; Prediction; Radiation; Slope correction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; FORECASTING; IONIZING RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BACKGROUND RADIATION; CLIMATE; FORECASTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0034323930     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004840000073     Document Type: Article

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