Evaluation of numerical weather prediction for intra-day solar forecasting in the continental United States

Solar Energy

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 967-977

  Mathiesen, Patrick ^a   Kleissl, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Model output statistics (MOS); Numerical weather prediction (NWP); Solar forecasting

Indexed keywords

BASELINE ACCURACY; BIAS CORRECTION; CLEAR SKY; CLEAR SKY MODELS; CLOUDY CONDITIONS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FORECASTING TECHNIQUES; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; MEAN BIAS ERRORS; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS; NEGATIVE BIAS; NORTH AMERICAN; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP); NWP MODEL; POSITIVE BIAS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOLAR FORECASTING; SOLAR IRRADIATION; SOLAR NOON; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE;

ERRORS; SCANNING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLEAR SKY; IRRADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERSISTENCE; PREDICTION; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZENITH ANGLE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954582115     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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