Modeling hourly diffuse solar-radiation in the city of São Paulo using a neural-network technique

Applied Energy

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 201-214

  Soares, Jacyra ^a   Oliveira, Amauri P ^a   Božnar, Marija Zlata ^b   Mlakar, Primož ^b   Escobedo, Joao F ^c   Machado, Antonio J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hourly diffuse solar radiation; Perceptron neural network; S o Paulo City

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS;

METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PERCEPTRON NEURAL-NETWORK;

SOLAR RADIATION;

CLOUD COVER; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOLAR RADIATION;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SAO PAULO [SAO PAULO (STT)]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 2642536672     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2003.11.004     Document Type: Article

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