Improved model output statistics of numerical weather prediction based irradiance forecasts for solar power applications

Solar Energy

Volumn 118, Issue , 2015, Pages 634-645

  Verzijlbergh, Remco A ^a   Heijnen, Petra W ^a   de Roode, Stephan R ^b   Los, Alexander ^b   Jonker, Harm J J ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Model output statistics (MOS); Numerical weather prediction (NWP); Solar forecasting

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NUMERICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR ENERGY;

METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; SOLAR FORECASTING; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL GRANULARITIES; STEPWISE LINEAR REGRESSION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; IRRADIANCE; LINEARITY; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 84933055350     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2015.06.005     Document Type: Article

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