A study for estimating solar resources in Turkey using artificial neural networks

Energy Sources

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1369-1378

  Sözen, Adnan ^a   Özalp, Mehmet ^a   Arcaklioǧlu, Erol ^b   Kanit, E Galip ^c  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KIRIKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Turkish State Meteorological Service   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Backpropagation; Deviation; Solar resource, Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746598284     PISSN: 00908312     EISSN: 15210510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00908310490441935     Document Type: Article

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