A comparison of data sources for creating a long-term time series of daily gridded solar radiation for Europe

Solar Energy

Volumn 99, Issue , 2014, Pages 152-171

  Bojanowski, Jedrzej S ^a   Vrieling, Anton ^b   Skidmore, Andrew K ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ERA Interim; Inter comparison; Meteosat; Remote sensing; SEVIRI; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

ERA INTERIMS; INTERCOMPARISONS; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; METEOSAT; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES; SATELLITE APPLICATION FACILITIES; SEVIRI; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REMOTE SENSING; SUN; TIME SERIES; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

SOLAR RADIATION;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; METEOSAT; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEVIRI; SOLAR RADIATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84890062601     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2013.11.007     Document Type: Article

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