Assessment of spatial and temporal variability in the US solar resource from radiometric measurements and predictions from models using ground-based or satellite data

Solar Energy

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1068-1084

  Gueymard, Christian A ^a   Wilcox, Stephen M ^b  

^a SOLAR CONSULTING SERVICES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct and global irradiance; DNI; Interannual; Solar resource; Validation; Variability

Indexed keywords

DNI; GLOBAL IRRADIANCE; INTERANNUAL; SOLAR RESOURCES; VALIDATION; VARIABILITY;

CHARACTERIZATION; MEASUREMENTS; QUALITY CONTROL; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SATELLITE DATA; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954579929     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2011.02.030     Document Type: Article

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