Effect of cloudiness on solar global, solar diffuse and terrestrial downward radiation at Badajoz (Southwestern Spain)

Optica Pura y Aplicada

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-38

  Sanchez G ^a   Serrano, A ^a   Cancillo, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloudiness; Diffuse radiation; Global radiation; Infrared radiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864304742     PISSN: 00303917     EISSN: 21718814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7149/OPA.45.1.33     Document Type: Article

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