Estimation of global solar radiation using artificial neural networks
Abstract
This paper introduces a neural network technique for the estimation of global solar radiation. There are 41 radiation data collection stations spread all over the kingdom of Saudi Arabia where the radiation data and sunshine duration information are being collected since 1971. The available data from 31 locations is used for training the neural networks and the data from the other 10 locations is used for testing. The testing data was not used in the modeling to give an indication of the performance of the system in unknown locations. Results indicate the viability of this approach for spatial modeling of solar radiation.
- Publication:
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Renewable Energy
- Pub Date:
- January 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0960-1481(98)00065-2
- Bibcode:
- 1998REne...14..179M
- Keywords:
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- Artificial neural networks;
- global solar radiation;
- renewable energy