Acknowledgement
This work has been developed and funded under the framework of the European H2020 GENIORS Project (Contract n: 730227), CIEMAT-ENRESA collaboration agreement (SOPSEP project, Contract n: 0079000269) and Spanish SYTRAD II project (National R&D program: "Retos de la Sociedad", reference number: ENE2017-89280-R).
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