Irradiance forecasts based on an irradiance monitoring network, cloud motion, and spatial averaging

Solar Energy

Volumn 122, Issue , 2015, Pages 1158-1169

  Lorenzo, Antonio T ^a   Holmgren, William F ^a   Cronin, Alexander D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Sensor network; Solar forecasting; Solar irradiance

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLOUD MOTION VECTORS; IRRADIANCE MEASUREMENT; IRRADIANCE SENSORS; NUMERICAL WEATHER MODEL; PERSISTENCE MODELS; REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS; SOLAR FORECASTING; SOLAR IRRADIANCES;

FORECASTING;

CLOUD COVER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; IRRADIANCE; REAL TIME; SENSOR; SMOOTHING; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84947277352     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2015.10.038     Document Type: Article

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