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@inproceedings{multimodel_cloud,
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year = {2011},
month = {05},
pages = {967-977},
title = {Evaluation of numerical weather prediction for intra-day solar forecasting in the continental United States},
volume = {85},
journal = {Solar Energy},
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}

@misc{multimodel_nam,
 author = "",
 title = "NCEP North American Mesoscale (NAM) 12 km Analysis",
 publisher  = "Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory",
 address = {Boulder CO},
 year  = "2015",
 url = "https://doi.org/10.5065/G4RC-1N91"
}

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title = "A new airmass independent formulation for the Linke turbidity coefficient",
journal = "Solar Energy",
volume = "73",
number = "3",
pages = "151 - 157",
year = "2002",
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url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038092X02000452",
author = "Pierre Ineichen and Richard Perez",
abstract = "We propose a new formulation for the Linke turbidity coefficient with the objective of removing its dependence upon solar geometry. In the process, we also develop two new simple clear sky models for global and direct normal irradiance."
}

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}

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@MastersThesis{thesis_zach,
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  title = {{Machine Learning For Solar Irradiance Forecasting}},
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  address = {Athens, GA},
  year={2019}}

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