Choice of the Ångström-Prescott coefficients: Are time-dependent ones better than fixed ones in modeling global solar irradiance?

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2565-2574

  Liu, Xiaoying ^a   Mei, Xurong ^a   Li, Yuzhong ^a   Porter, John Roy ^b   Wang, Qingsuo ^a   Zhang, Yanqing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fixed; Global solar irradiance; Ngstr m Prescott coefficients; Time dependent

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL METHOD; EQUIFINALITY; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; PREDICTIVE VALUES; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; TEMPERATE CLIMATE; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT CHARACTERISTICS;

BENCHMARKING; CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 77955470370     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2010.05.020     Document Type: Article

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