A new method to estimate average hourly global solar radiation on the horizontal surface

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 114-115, Issue , 2012, Pages 83-90

  Pandey, Pramod K ^a   Soupir, Michelle L ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hourly global solar radiation; Model; Optimum parameter values; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

BIAS ERROR; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ERROR PERCENTAGE; GLOBAL SOLAR RADIATION; HORIZONTAL SURFACES; MODEL PERFORMANCE; NEW MODEL; OPTIMIZED PARAMETER; OPTIMUM PARAMETER VALUES; PARAMETER VALUES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEATTLE; SENSITIVITY; SOLAR CONSTANT; TRANSMISSION FUNCTION;

FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SUN;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84861980117     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.05.012     Document Type: Article

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