Spatial and temporal distribution of long-term short-wave surface radiation over Greece

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 621, 2006, Pages 2693-2718

  Fotiadi, A ^c   Hatzianastassiou, N ^a,b   Stackhouse, Jr ^d   Matsoukas, C ^b,c   Drakakis, E ^b,e   Pavlakis, K G ^b,e   Hatzidimitriou, D ^b,c   Vardavas, I ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Climate; Renewable energy sources; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR RADIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GREECE; LONG-TERM SHORT WAVE SURFACE RADIATION; RADIATIVE-TRANSFER MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 33846892481     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.163     Document Type: Article

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