This webpage presents just my most important and interesting publications. You can find a complete list on my CV and Google Scholar account.

Book Solar Energy Forecasting and Resource Assessment. Editor: Jan Kleissl. ISBN 9780123971777. Co-authored chapters: Bryan Urquhart, Mohamed Ghonima, Dung Nguyen, Ben Kurtz, Chi Wai Chow and Jan Kleissl, Sky Imaging Systems for Short-term Forecasting. Patrick Mathiesen, Craig Collier, and Jan Kleissl, Solar Forecasting Case Studies with the Weather and Research Forecasting Model at GL-Garrad Hassan Coimbra, C., J Kleissl, R Marquez: Overview of Solar Forecasting Methods and a Metric for Accuracy Evaluation. Lave M., J. Stein, J Kleissl, Quantifying and Simulating Solar Power Plant Variability using Irradiance Data

• 2013 Solar First comprehensive analysis of soiling impacts on real-world PV system performance. full paper.
• 2013 Solar Cloud speed impact on solar variability. Updated Wavelet-Based Variability Model (WVM) for Solar PV Power Plants. full paper.
• 2013 Solar A high-resolution, cloud-assimilating numerical weather prediction model for solar irradiance forecasting. Full paper
• 2013 Infrared thermography to study surface-temperature and surface-layer turbulence in a convective boundary layer. Full paper.
• 2013 Solar Energy dispatch schedule optimization and cost benefit analysis for grid-connected, photovoltaic-battery storage systems. Full paper.
• 2013 Solar Cloud speed detection from ground sensors. Full paper
• 2012 Solar A Method for Cloud Classification Based on Ground Based Sky Imagery. Open Access. .
• 2012 Solar A Wavelet-Based Variability Model (WVM) for Solar PV Power Plants. Also see full paper.
• 2012 Urban Energy Effect of Reflective Pavements on Building Energy Use. Open Access
• 2012 Urban Energy An indoor–outdoor building energy simulator to study urban modification effects on building energy use – Model description and validation. Also see full paper
• 2011 Solar Solar Forecasting with a Total Sky Imager. Full paper
• 2011 Coupling between surface and air temperatures in the convective atmospheric boundary layer. Full paper. Movie showing surface temperature patterns at 1 sec resolution (38 MB).
• 2011 Solar Evaluating numerical weather prediction models in the US. Full paper
• 2011 Urban Energy Fundamental measurements and characterization of heat transfer on a building wall. Also see full paper
• 2011 Urban Energy Sharpening low-resolution thermal urban satellite data. full paper
• 2011 Scintillometer saturation correction methods. full paper
• 2011 Urban Energy Reduction in roof heat flux through solar panels. Also see press release and full paper
• 2011 Solar High frequency irradiance fluctuations and geographic smoothing. Full paper
• 2010 Solar Optimum azimuth and tilt angles for solar energy systems. Full paper
• 2010 Solar Variability and geographic smoothing of solar power in Colorado. Full paper
• 2010 Solar Validation of the National Solar Radiation Data Base in California.
• 2010 Estimating biomass heat storage using thermal imagery.
• 2010 Urban Energy Effects of artificial turf on urban climate and energy use.
• 2009 Large aperture scintillometer network for ground truthing of remotely sensed evapotranspiration in New Mexico.
• 2008 Large aperture scintillometer intercomparison study.
• 2006 Application of Large Eddy Simulation to atmospheric boundary layer flows.
• 2006 Development of a simple model to predict Mountain Clouds.
• 2004 My dissertation: Subgrid-scale modeling for large eddy simulation (8 MB)
• 2004 Measurements of forest-fire particulates from Quebec at the Baltimore EPA supersite.

• 2010 National Science Foundation: Coupling Between Skin Temperature and Evapotranspiration
• 2010 California Solar Energy Collaborative: Release of more accurate solar resource data for California