Fast clear-sky solar irradiation computation for very large digital elevation models

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 178, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 800-808

  Romero, L F ^a   Tabik, Siham ^a   Vías, Jesús M ^a   Zapata, Emilio L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clear sky irradiation; Climatological parameters; Discretization; Horizon computation algorithm; Large DEMs; Large simulated periods; Sky map

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

CLEAR SKY IRRADIATION; CLIMATOLOGICAL FACTORS; CLIMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; DISCRETIZATION; HORIZON COMPUTATION ALGORITHMS; LARGE SIMULATED PERIODS; SKY-MAP;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 43049153391     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2008.01.048     Document Type: Article

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