Evaluation of conventional and high-performance routine solar radiation measurements for improved solar resource, climatological trends, and radiative modeling

Solar Energy

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-185

  Gueymard, Christian A ^a   Myers, Daryl R ^b  

^a SOLAR CONSULTING SERVICES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Irradiance; Pyranometer; Pyrheliometer; Radiometry; Solar radiation; Transposition

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; RADIATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CORRECTION METHODS; CORRECTIVE MEASURES; DATA INACCURACIES; DATA QUALITIES; DIFFUSE IRRADIANCES; GLOBAL RADIATIONS; INDIRECT DETERMINATIONS; IRRADIANCE; PYRANOMETER; PYRHELIOMETER; RADIATION MODELS; RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; RENEWABLE ENERGY COMMUNITIES; SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS; SOLAR RADIATION MEASUREMENTS; SOLAR RADIATION MODELS; SOLAR RESOURCES; TRANSPOSITION;

SOLAR ENERGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA QUALITY; IRRADIANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 58149201268     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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