Comparison of empirical daily surface incoming solar radiation models

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 1332-1340

  Fortin, Jérôme G ^a   Anctil, François ^a   Parent, Léon Étienne ^a   Bolinder, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crop growth models; Empirical models; Global solar radiation; Mesonet; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; SOLAR RADIATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 44749094126     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.03.012     Document Type: Article

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