Quantifying and Simulating Solar-Plant Variability Using Irradiance Data

Solar Energy Forecasting and Resource Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 149-169

  Lave, Matthew ^a,b   Kleissl, Jan ^a   Stein, Joshua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud speed; Correlation; Cumulative distribution function; Geographic smoothing; Ground data; Puerto rico; Ramp rates; Solar variability; Wavelet variability model

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; GEOGRAPHIC SMOOTHING; GROUND DATA; PUERTO RICO; RAMP RATES; SOLAR VARIABILITY; VARIABILITY MODEL;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84903806789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-397177-7.00007-3     Document Type: Chapter

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