100-millisecond resolution for accurate overirradiance measurements

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1354-1360

  Yordanov, Georgi Hristov ^a   Saetre, Tor Oskar ^a   Midtgard, Ole Morten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cloud enhancement; instrumentation and measurement; natural concentration of sunlight; overirradiance; solar energy; solar power generation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; CLOUD ENHANCEMENTS; INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENTS; NATURAL CONCENTRATION OF SUNLIGHT; OPTIMAL SAMPLING RATES; OVERIRRADIANCE; TEMPORAL DERIVATIVES; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84884669338     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2264621     Document Type: Article

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