Estimating average daytime and daily temperature profiles within Europe

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1650-1661

  Huld, Thomas A ^a   Šúri, Marcel ^a   Dunlop, Ewan D ^a   Micale, Fabio ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Daytime and daily temperatures; Geographical information system; Interpolation; Solar energy applications; Temperature curve fits

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DAYTIME AND DAILY TEMPERATURES; SOLAR ENERGY APPLICATIONS; SPATIALLY-CONTINUOUS DATABASE; TEMPERATURE CURVE FITS;

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATABASE; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RESOLUTION; SILICON; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33746699593     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2005.07.010     Document Type: Article

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