On the determination of coherent solar microclimates for utility planning and operations

Solar Energy

Volumn 102, Issue , 2014, Pages 173-188

  Zagouras, Athanassios ^a   Inman, Rich H ^a   Coimbra, Carlos F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering validation; Coherent solar microclimates; Data clustering; Utility planning and operations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893739630     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2014.01.021     Document Type: Article

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