Cloud speed impact on solar variability scaling - Application to the wavelet variability model

Solar Energy

Volumn 91, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-21

  Lave, Matthew ^a   Kleissl, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud speed; PV powerplant; Smoothing; Variability; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

DECAY OF CORRELATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; IRRADIANCE SENSORS; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; NUMERICAL WEATHER MODEL; POINT SENSORS; PV PLANTS; RAMP RATES; SCALING COEFFICIENTS; SCALING-UP; SMOOTHING; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS; SOLAR VARIABILITY; SPEED IMPACTS; TIME-SCALES; VARIABILITY; VARIABILITY MODEL; WAVELET;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

SPEED;

CALIBRATION; IRRADIANCE; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POWER PLANT; SENSOR; SOLAR POWER; TIMESCALE; WAVELET;

EID: 84874419426     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2013.01.023     Document Type: Article

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