Changes in solar energy availability for south-eastern Europe with respect to global warming

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 63-69

  Bartók, Blanka ^a,b  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cloudiness; Global radiation; Global warming; Instrumental variables

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVERAGE; CLOUDINESS; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; GLOBAL RADIATION; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; LOCAL VARIABLES; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MEAN TEMPERATURE; METEOSAT; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; SHORT PERIODS; SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCE; STEP REGRESSION; SURFACE-BASED; VISUAL IMAGE;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; GLOBAL WARMING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR ENERGY;

SOLAR RADIATION;

CLOUD COVER; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL WARMING; INSTRUMENTATION; METEOSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR POWER;

EUROPE;

EID: 77951254341     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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