Post-processing of solar irradiance forecasts from WRF model at Reunion Island

Solar Energy

Volumn 105, Issue , 2014, Pages 99-108

  Diagne, Maimouna ^a,b   David, Mathieu ^b   Boland, John ^c   Schmutz, Nicolas ^a   Lauret, Philippe ^b  

^a Reuniwatt Company   (Reunion)

^b University of La Reunion   (Reunion)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Kalman filtering; Model Output Statistics; NWP; Solar irradiance forecasting; WRF

Indexed keywords

KALMAN FILTERS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

KALMAN-FILTERING; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS; NWP; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; WRF;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84899857486     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2014.03.016     Document Type: Article

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