Long-term variations of available solar radiation on seasonal timescales in 1955-2006 at Tartu-Tõravere Meteorological Station, Estonia

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 371-379

  Eerme, Kalju ^a   Kallis, Ain ^b,d   Veismann, Uno ^a   Ansko, Ilmar ^a,c  

^a TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^b Estonian Meteorological and Hydrological Institute   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEAR SKY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOLAR RADIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ESTONIA; TARTU; TORAVERE;

EID: 77955097052     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0226-6     Document Type: Article

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