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The Prediction of the Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) Project, initiated under the NASA Science Mission Directorate Applied Science Energy Management Program, analyzes, synthesizes and makes available data parameters on a global scale. These data have proved to be reliable and useful to the renewable energy industries, especially to the solar energy sectors. The POWER project derives its data primarily from NASA’s World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)/Global Energy and Water cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) project (Version 2.9) and the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) assimilation model (Version 4).
The latest development of the NASA POWER Project and its plans for the future are presented in this paper.
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Zhang, T., Chandler, W.S., Hoell, J.M., Westberg, D., Whitlock, C.H., Stackhouse, P.W. (2008). A Global Perspective on Renewable Energy Resources: Nasa’s Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (Power) Project. In: Goswami, D.Y., Zhao, Y. (eds) Proceedings of ISES World Congress 2007 (Vol. I – Vol. V). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75997-3_532
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