Aerosols for concentrating solar electricity production forecasts: Requirement quantification and ECMWF/MACC aerosol forecast assessment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 903-914

  Schroedter Homscheidt, Marion ^a   Oumbe, Armel ^a   Benedetti, Angela ^b   Morcrette, Jean Jacques ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL EXTINCTION; CHEMICAL WEATHERS; CONCENTRATING SOLAR; CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER; CONCENTRATING TECHNOLOGY; DIRECT NORMAL IRRADIANCES; FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES; NUMERICAL WEATHER FORECASTING;

AEROSOLS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84880199741     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00259.1     Document Type: Article

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