Short-term irradiance variability: Preliminary estimation of station pair correlation as a function of distance

Solar Energy

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2170-2176

  Perez, Richard ^a   Kivalov, Sergey ^a   Schlemmer, Jim ^a   Hemker Jr , Karl ^a   Hoff, Thomas E ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Clean Power Research   (United States)

Author keywords

High frequency; Irradiance; PV grid interaction; Variability

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MOTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; GRID INTERACTION; HIGH FREQUENCY; INSOLATION CONDITIONS; IRRADIANCE; PAIR CORRELATIONS; QUASI-LINEAR FUNCTIONS; TIME-SCALES; VARIABILITY; VIRTUAL NETWORKS;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR ENERGY;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INSOLATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RADIATION BALANCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR SYSTEM; TIMESCALE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864137447     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2012.02.027     Document Type: Review

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