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20 Feb 2015
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| 20 Feb 2015
Development of a sky imaging system for short-term solar power forecasting
B. Urquhart
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
University of California, San Diego, California, USA
B. Kurtz
University of California, San Diego, California, USA
E. Dahlin
University of California, San Diego, California, USA
M. Ghonima
University of California, San Diego, California, USA
J. E. Shields
University of California, San Diego, California, USA
J. Kleissl
University of California, San Diego, California, USA
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