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Fractal Classification of Typical Meteorological Days from Global Solar Irradiance: Application to Five Sites of Different Climates

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  1. Solar Instrumentation 8 Modeling Group/LIWS - Faculty of Electronics and Computer, University of Science and Technology H, Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria

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Harrouni, S. (2008). Fractal Classification of Typical Meteorological Days from Global Solar Irradiance: Application to Five Sites of Different Climates. In: Badescu, V. (eds) Modeling Solar Radiation at the Earth’s Surface. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77455-6_2

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