An analytical comparison of four approaches to modelling the daily variability of solar irradiance using meteorological records

Renewable Energy

Volumn 72, Issue , 2014, Pages 195-202

  Huang, Jing ^a   Troccoli, Alberto ^a   Coppin, Peter ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Global horizontal irradiance; Multiple linear regression; Random forest; Solar variability; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; LINEAR REGRESSION; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

GLOBAL HORIZONTAL IRRADIANCE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; RANDOM FORESTS; SOLAR VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

SOLAR RADIATION;

CLOUD COVER; METEOROLOGY; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER GENERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84905395384     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.07.015     Document Type: Article

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