Impacts of wind stilling on solar radiation variability in China

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lin, Changgui ^a,b   Yang, Kun ^a,b   Huang, Jianping ^c   Tang, Wenjun ^a,b   Qin, Jun ^a   Niu, Xiaolei ^a,b   Chen, Yingying ^a,b   Chen, Deliang ^d   Lu, Ning ^e   Fu, Rong ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 84944474469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep15135     Document Type: Article

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