Precipitation estimates for hydroelectricity

Energy and Environmental Science

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4435-4448

  Tapiador, Francisco J ^a   Hou, Arthur Y ^b   De Castro, Manuel ^a   Checa, Ramiro ^a   Cuartero, Fernando ^a   Barros, Ana P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISDROMETERS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; GRID TECHNOLOGIES; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HYDROELECTRIC PLANT; NUMERICAL MODELS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RESEARCH DIRECTIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; NUMERICAL METHODS;

RAIN;

BUILDING; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SNOW;

EID: 80055042768     PISSN: 17545692     EISSN: 17545706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c1ee01745d     Document Type: Review

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