Solar Resource for Space and Terrestrial Applications

Solar Cells and their Applications: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 425-461

  Gueymard, Christian A ^a   Myers, Daryl ^b  

^a SOLAR CONSULTING SERVICES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Other aspects and considerations solar resource for space and terrestrial applications; Scattering of radiation in atmosphere redirection of photons by gas molecules (Rayleigh scattering); Solar resource for terrestrial applications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888655159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470636886.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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