Climatic influences on solar modelling in China

Renewable Energy

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1591-1604

  Lam, Joseph C ^a   Wan, Kevin K W ^a   Lau, Chris C S ^a   Yang, Liu ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Climatic zones; Solar modelling; Sunshine hours

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATIC ZONES; SOLAR MODELING; SUNSHINE HOURS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLEAR SKY; CLIMATE EFFECT; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 40949111476     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2007.09.010     Document Type: Article

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