Towards downscaling of aerosol gridded dataset for improving solar resource assessment, an application to Spain

F. Antonanzas-Torres, A. Sanz-Garcia, F.J. Martínez-de-Pisón, J. Antonanzas, O. Perpiñán-Lamigueiro and J. Polo

Renewable Energy, 2014, vol. 71, issue C, 534-544

Abstract: Solar radiation estimates with clear sky models require estimations of aerosol data. The low spatial resolution of current aerosol datasets, with their remarkable drift from measured data, poses a problem in solar resource estimation. This paper proposes a new downscaling methodology by combining support vector machines for regression (SVR) and kriging with external drift, with data from the MACC reanalysis datasets and temperature and rainfall measurements from 213 meteorological stations in continental Spain.

Keywords: Clear sky models; Downscaling; Aerosol; Linke turbidity; Solar radiation; AERONET (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.06.010

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