Performance characteristics of a perforated shadow band under clear sky conditions

Solar Energy

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2179-2194

  Brooks, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Broadband solar radiation; Diffuse irradiance; Global irradiance; Ray tracing; Shadow band

Indexed keywords

BAND SYSTEMS; BROADBAND SOLAR RADIATION; CLEAR SKY; DATA PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSE IRRADIANCE; DIRECT NORMAL IRRADIANCES; GLOBAL IRRADIANCE; GLOBAL SOLAR IRRADIANCES; GROUND STATIONS; MEAN BIAS ERRORS; NORMAL COMPONENT; OPTICAL RAY TRACING; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PYRANOMETERS; RANDOM UNCERTAINTIES; RAY TRACE; REFERENCE INSTRUMENTS; SAW-TOOTH; SHADOWBAND; WAVE FORMS;

CURVE FITTING; INSTRUMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAY TRACING; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; ROTATION; SENSORS; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

DATA PROCESSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CLEAR SKY; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SENSOR; SOLAR RADIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 78349313189     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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