Monthly average daily global and diffuse solar radiation based on sunshine duration and clearness index for Brasov, Romania

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Cotfas, Daniel Tudor ^a   Cotfas, Petru Adrian ^a   Kaplani, Eleni ^b   Samoila, Cornel ^a  

^a TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

^b Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics Dept   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEARNESS INDICES; DIFFUSE SOLAR RADIATIONS; ROMANIA; SUNSHINE DURATION;

EID: 84908388874     PISSN: 19417012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4896596     Document Type: Article

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