Evaluation and improvement of TAPM in estimating solar irradiance in Eastern Australia

Solar Energy

Volumn 107, Issue , 2014, Pages 668-680

  Dehghan, Armin ^a   Prasad, Abhnil A ^a   Sherwood, Steven C ^a   Kay, Merlinde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Model evaluation; Solar irradiance; TAPM

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SATELLITES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRALIA; BUREAU OF METEOROLOGIES; EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; MODEL EVALUATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; TAPM;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD; COLD FRONT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; LOW PRESSURE; METEOROLOGY; PRESSURE EFFECT; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84903954211     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2014.06.018     Document Type: Article

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