Empirical models for estimating global solar radiation: A review and case study

F Besharat, AA Dehghan, AR Faghih - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2013 - Elsevier
Solar radiation is a primary driver for many physical, chemical, and biological processes on
the earth's surface. Solar energy engineers, architects, agriculturists, hydrologists, etc. often …

A critical review of the models used to estimate solar radiation

J Zhang, L Zhao, S Deng, W Xu, Y Zhang - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2017 - Elsevier
Solar radiation data is critical to the design and operation of solar energy utilization systems,
so a large number of models have been proposed and developed to estimate solar radiation …

Comparison of Support Vector Machine and Extreme Gradient Boosting for predicting daily global solar radiation using temperature and precipitation in humid …

J Fan, X Wang, L Wu, H Zhou, F Zhang, X Yu… - Energy conversion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The knowledge of global solar radiation (H) is a prerequisite for the use of renewable solar
energy, but H measurements are always not available due to high costs and technical …

Validation of calibrated energy models: Common errors

G Ramos Ruiz, C Fernandez Bandera - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, there is growing interest in all the smart technologies that provide us with
information and knowledge about the human environment. In the energy field, thanks to the …

Solar radiation prediction using different techniques: model evaluation and comparison

L Wang, O Kisi, M Zounemat-Kermani… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Daily observations of meteorological parameters, air temperature, air pressure, relative
humidity, water vapor pressure and sunshine duration hours observed at 12 stations in …

Global solar radiation prediction by ANN integrated with European Centre for medium range weather forecast fields in solar rich cities of Queensland Australia

S Ghimire, RC Deo, NJ Downs, N Raj - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
To support alternative forms of energy resources, the prediction of global incident solar
radiation (I rad) is critical to establish the efficacy of solar energy resources as a free and …

General models for estimating daily global solar radiation for different solar radiation zones in mainland China

MF Li, XP Tang, W Wu, HB Liu - Energy conversion and management, 2013 - Elsevier
Empirical models, proposed to estimate solar radiation (Rs) in various areas, were site-
specific in essence. However, it is questionable when they are applied to other stations …

Artificial neural network based daily local forecasting for global solar radiation

B Amrouche, X Le Pivert - Applied energy, 2014 - Elsevier
When a part of the power is generated by grid connected photovoltaic installations, an
effective global solar irradiation (GSI) forecasting tool becomes a must to ensure the quality …

Performance evaluation of hybrid adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system models for predicting monthly global solar radiation

LM Halabi, S Mekhilef, M Hossain - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Solar energy plays a vital role in the field of sustainable energy by providing clean, efficient
and reliable alternative source of energy. Where, the output of solar energy systems is highly …

New temperature-based models for predicting global solar radiation

GE Hassan, ME Youssef, ZE Mohamed, MA Ali… - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
This study presents new ambient-temperature-based models for estimating global solar
radiation as alternatives to the widely used sunshine-based models owing to the …