The solar resource

Comprehensive Renewable Energy

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages 27-84

  Kambezidis, H D ^a  

^a Atmospheric Research Team   (Greece)

Author keywords

Net solar radiation; Solar atlases; Solar energy; Solar radiation; Solar radiation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957738948     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-087872-0.00302-4     Document Type: Chapter

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