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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1435-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1435-2020
Research article
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31 Oct 2020
Research article |  | 31 Oct 2020

Operational-based annual energy production uncertainty: are its components actually uncorrelated?

Nicola Bodini and Mike Optis

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