Solar radiation modelling for the simulation of photovoltaic systems

Renewable Energy

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1109-1120

  Mondol, Jayanta Deb ^a   Yohanis, Yigzaw G ^a   Norton, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Clearness index; Diffuse global correlation; Statistical error; Tilted surface radiation model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLEARNESS INDEX; DIFFUSE-GLOBAL CORRELATION; STATISTICAL ERROR; TILTED SURFACE RADIATION MODEL;

SOLAR RADIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INDEX METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 38349144373     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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