Development of neural network model to estimate hourly total and diffuse solar radiation on horizontal surface at Alexandria city (Egypt)

Journal of Applied Sciences Research

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2006-2015

  Kassem, A S ^a   Aboukarima, A M ^b   El Ashmawy, N E ^c  

^a Alexandria University   (Egypt)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Agricultural Research Center   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Hourly diffuse solar radiation; Hourly total solar radiation; Neural network

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949560917     PISSN: 1816157X     EISSN: 1819544X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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