Solar irradiance forecasting using spatial-temporal covariance structures and time-forward kriging

Renewable Energy

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 235-245

  Yang, Dazhi ^a   Gu, Chaojun ^a   Dong, Zibo ^a   Jirutitijaroen, Panida ^a   Chen, Nan ^a   Walsh, Wilfred M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Full symmetry; Separability; Stationarity; Time forward kriging; Variance covariance structures

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE STRUCTURES; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES; KRIGING; POWER GRID OPERATIONS; SEPARABILITY; STATIONARITY; VARIANCE-COVARIANCE;

ANISOTROPY; DIGITAL STORAGE; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR RADIATION; VELOCITY;

FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY RESOURCE; IRRADIANCE; KRIGING; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEATHER STATION;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84878837905     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.05.030     Document Type: Article

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