Classification of daily solar radiation distributions using a mixture of Dirichlet distributions

Solar Energy

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1056-1063

  Soubdhan, Ted ^a   Emilion, Richard ^b   Calif, Rudy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

Classification; Clearness index kt; Daily distributions; Dirichlet mixture; Solar radiation; Solar systems

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CLEARNESS INDEX KT; CLEARNESS INDICES; DAILY DISTRIBUTIONS; DIRICHLET DISTRIBUTIONS; DIRICHLET MIXTURE; FINITE MIXTURES; GUADELOUPE; SOLAR RADIATION DISTRIBUTION; SOLAR RADIATION MEASUREMENTS; TROPICAL CLIMATES; WEATHER PREDICTION;

ASTRONOMY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; INDUCTION MOTORS; MIXTURES; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR RADIATION;

SUN;

CLASSIFICATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 66049123997     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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