The impact of climate change on photovoltaic power generation in Europe

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jerez, Sonia ^a   Tobin, Isabelle ^b   Vautard, Robert ^b   Montávez, Juan Pedro ^a   López Romero, Jose María ^a   Thais, Françoise ^c   Bartok, Blanka ^d,e   Christensen, Ole Bøssing ^f   Colette, Augustin ^g   Déqué, Michel ^h   Nikulin, Grigory ⁱ   Kotlarski, Sven ^d   Van Meijgaard, Erik ^j   Teichmann, Claas ^k   Wild, Martin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^e BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^f DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^g INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES INERIS   (France)

^h CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

ⁱ SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^j ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^k INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EUROPE; MODEL;

EUROPE;

EID: 84949580254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10014     Document Type: Article

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