Evaluation of WRF shortwave radiation parameterizations in predicting Global Horizontal Irradiance in Greece

Renewable Energy

Volumn 86, Issue , 2016, Pages 831-840

  Zempila, Melina Maria ^a   Giannaros, Theodore M ^b   Bais, Alkiviadis ^a   Melas, Dimitris ^a   Kazantzidis, Andreas ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aerosol effects; Global Horizontal Irradiance; Hellenic Network of Solar Energy; Numerical modeling; Shortwave radiation parameterizations; WRF

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BALLOONS; FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOLAR ENERGY; STATISTICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AEROSOL EFFECT; GLOBAL HORIZONTAL IRRADIANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; STANDARD DEVIATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

AEROSOL; CLEAR SKY; IRRADIANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR POWER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZENITH ANGLE;

GREECE;

EID: 84942036730     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: 18790682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.08.057     Document Type: Article

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