TY - GEN
T1 - Climate-regime cospectrum analysis
T2 - World Renewable Energy Forum, WREF 2012, Including World Renewable Energy Congress XII and Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) Annual Conference
AU - Rayl, Jeff
AU - Young, George
AU - Brownson, Jeffrey R.S.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Solar irradiance has both short-term (less than 12 hour) and long-term (seasonal) variations. Understanding these fluctuations is crucial for improving solar resource forecasting and evaluating co-production strategies for solar-fossil power technologies. Six USA sites are selected from the Integrated Surface Irradiance Study (ISIS) and Surface Radiation (SURFRAD) budget network. To assess the long-term variations, the data is analyzed in seasonal periods: winter, spring, summer, and fall. Power spectral density is used to analyze the short term and long term variations in DWS. The inter-site coherence and phase analysis allows geographic dispersion of the solar resource to be evaluated. Results indicate that understanding long-term periodic oscillations are useful to optimize the co-production of solar/fossil power. Seasonal analysis of short-term variations suggests that the ability of a regionally dispersed network of PV to dampen the intermittency of solar power production is dependent upon the climatic regime.
AB - Solar irradiance has both short-term (less than 12 hour) and long-term (seasonal) variations. Understanding these fluctuations is crucial for improving solar resource forecasting and evaluating co-production strategies for solar-fossil power technologies. Six USA sites are selected from the Integrated Surface Irradiance Study (ISIS) and Surface Radiation (SURFRAD) budget network. To assess the long-term variations, the data is analyzed in seasonal periods: winter, spring, summer, and fall. Power spectral density is used to analyze the short term and long term variations in DWS. The inter-site coherence and phase analysis allows geographic dispersion of the solar resource to be evaluated. Results indicate that understanding long-term periodic oscillations are useful to optimize the co-production of solar/fossil power. Seasonal analysis of short-term variations suggests that the ability of a regionally dispersed network of PV to dampen the intermittency of solar power production is dependent upon the climatic regime.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871552439
SN - 9781622760923
T3 - World Renewable Energy Forum, WREF 2012, Including World Renewable Energy Congress XII and Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) Annual Conferen
SP - 1957
EP - 1962
BT - World Renewable Energy Forum, WREF 2012, Including World Renewable Energy Congress XII and Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) Annual Conference
Y2 - 13 May 2012 through 17 May 2012
ER -
