An auto-calibration procedure for empirical solar radiation models

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 49, Issue , 2013, Pages 118-128

  Bojanowski, Jedrzej S ^a,b   Donatelli, Marcello ^a,c   Skidmore, Andrew K ^d   Vrieling, Anton ^d  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auto calibration; Global radiation; MSG SEVIRI; Self calibration; Solar radiation models

Indexed keywords

AUTO CALIBRATION; GLOBAL RADIATION; MSG/SEVIRI; SELF CALIBRATION; SOLAR RADIATION MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SUN; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TABLE LOOKUP; WATER SUPPLY;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; METEOSAT; SOLAR RADIATION; TIME SERIES;

EUROPE;

EID: 84884170996     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.08.002     Document Type: Article

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