New technique for estimating the monthly average daily global solar radiation using bees algorithm and empirical equations

Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1042-1050

  Tolabi, Hajar Bagheri ^a   Ayob, Shahrin Bin Md ^b   Moradi, M H ^c   Shakarmi, Mehrnoosh ^d  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d LORESTAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bees algorithm; empirical coefficients; empirical based models; global solar radiation; intelligent based models; statistical regression techniques

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATLAB; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

BEES ALGORITHMS; EMPIRICAL COEFFICIENTS; EMPIRICAL-BASED MODEL; GLOBAL SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICAL REGRESSION TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHMS;

APOIDEA;

EID: 84904254954     PISSN: 19447442     EISSN: 19447450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ep.11858     Document Type: Article

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