NASA climatological data for renewable energy assessment

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 945-949

  Chandler, William S ^a   Whitlock, Charles H ^a   Stackhouse Jr , Paul W ^b  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SELECTION; GRIDS; WIND PARAMETERS;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; DIFFUSION; INTERNET; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WIND EFFECTS;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 12344333463     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1748466     Document Type: Article

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