Influence of three-dimensional cloud effects on satellite derived solar irradiance estimation-First approaches to improve the Heliosat method

Solar Energy

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1145-1159

  Girodo, Marco ^a   Mueller, Richard W ^b   Heinemann, Detlev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heliosat; Radiative transfer modelling; Three dimensional cloud effects

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HELIOSTATS (INSTRUMENTS); IRRADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELING; RELATIVE ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR (RRMSE); SITE SPECIFIC CORRECTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CLOUD EFFECTS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HELIOSTATS (INSTRUMENTS); IRRADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLOUD COVER; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 33746773067     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2005.09.005     Document Type: Article

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