Prediction of monthly average global solar radiation based on statistical distribution of clearness index

Energy

Volumn 90, Issue , 2015, Pages 1733-1742

  Ayodele, T R ^a   Ogunjuyigbe, A S O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Clearness index; Extraterrestrial radiation; Global solar radiation; Prediction; Statistical distribution

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ERRORS; FORECASTING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLEARNESS INDICES; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; GLOBAL SOLAR RADIATION; GLOBAL SOLAR RADIATION DATA; INVERSE TRANSFORMATIONS; MEAN ABSOLUTE PERCENTAGE ERROR; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

IBADAN; NIGERIA; OYO;

EID: 84959372808     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.06.137     Document Type: Article

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