Analysis of spatiotemporal balancing between wind and solar energy resources in the southern Iberian Peninsula

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2005-2024

  Santos Alamillos, F J ^a   Pozo Vazquez D ^a   Ruiz Arias, J A ^a   Lara Fanego, V ^a   Tovar Pescador, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mesoscale models; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Principal components analysis; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CONTROL PROBLEMS; CONVENTIONAL POWER; ELECTRIC POWER; ENERGY ESTIMATES; IBERIAN PENINSULA; INTERMITTENCY; MESOSCALE MODEL; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OPTIMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POWER PRODUCTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; PV PLANTS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE SOURCES; SEASONALITY; SOLAR ENERGY PLANTS; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR; TOPOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS; TOTAL ENERGY; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING; WIND FARM;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY RESOURCES; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND POWER;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

EID: 84872129054     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0189.1     Document Type: Article

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