Completing production of the updated national solar radiation database for the United States

American Solar Energy Society - Solar 2007: 36th ASES Annual Conf., 32nd National Passive Solar Conf., 2nd Renewable Energy Policy and Marketing Conference: Sustainable Energy Puts America to Work

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-8

  Wilcox, Stephen ^a   Anderberg, Mary ^a   George, Ray ^a   Marion, William ^a   Myers, Daryl ^a   Renné, David ^a   Beckman, William ^b   Lott, Neal ^c   Whitehurst, Tom ^c   Gueymard, Christian ^d   Perez, Richard ^e   Stackhouse, Paul ^f   Vignola, Frank ^g  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^d SOLAR CONSULTING SERVICES   (United States)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^f NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; GROUND-BASED DATA; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL FIELDS; NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTERS; NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY; RESEARCH DATA; SOLAR DATA; TIME-SERIES DATA;

COMMERCE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY POLICY; MARKETING; METEOROLOGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

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EID: 84867844577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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