A survey on different radiative and cloud schemes for the solar radiation modeling

Solar Energy

Volumn 98, Issue , 2013, Pages 153-166

  Ronzio, D A ^a   Collino, E ^a   Bonelli, P ^a  

^a RICERCA SUL SISTEMA ENERGETICO RSE S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

Numerical weather prediction; SAFNWC satellite data; Solar forecasting

Indexed keywords

CLOUDY CONDITIONS; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SOLAR FORECASTING; SOLAR RADIATION FORECASTING; SOLAR RADIATION MODEL;

CLOUDS; SUN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SOLAR RADIATION;

AIR CONDITIONING; CLOUD; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RADIATION BALANCE; SATELLITE DATA; SOLAR RADIATION; SURVEY;

ITALY;

EID: 84887017768     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2013.04.015     Document Type: Article

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