Solar radiation prediction using different techniques: Model evaluation and comparison

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 61, Issue , 2016, Pages 384-397

  Wang, Lunche ^a   Kisi, Ozgur ^b   Zounemat Kermani, Mohammad ^c   Salazar, Germán Ariel ^d   Zhu, Zhongmin ^e,f   Gong, Wei ^f,g  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CANIK BASARI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^e HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g The Collaborative Innovation Center for Geospatial Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Generalized regression neural network; Improved Bristow Campbell model; Model evaluation; Multilayer perceptron; Radial basis neural network; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; MULTILAYERS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELING; CAMPBELL MODEL; GENERALIZED REGRESSION; GENERALIZED REGRESSION NEURAL NETWORK; IMPROVED BRISTOW-CAMPBELL MODEL; MODEL EVALUATION; MULTILAYERS PERCEPTRONS; RADIAL BASIS NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION NEURAL NETWORKS; SOLAR RADIATION MODEL;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84964389454     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.04.024     Document Type: Review

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