Quantifying long-timescale solar resource variability

World Renewable Energy Forum, WREF 2012, Including World Renewable Energy Congress XII and Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) Annual Conferen

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 2632-2638

  Perez, Marc J R ^a   Fthenakis, Vasilis M ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEARNESS INDICES; CONTINENTAL SCALE; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; FUNCTION OF TIME; GEOGRAPHIC FOOTPRINTS; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; LOAD FOLLOWING; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; RADIATIVE FLUXES; REGULATION MARKETS; SOLAR PENETRATION; SOLAR RESOURCES; STANDARD DEVIATION; STEP CHANGES; SURFACE RESOURCES; TIME AVERAGING; TIME FRAME; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATOLOGY; NASA;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84871603312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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