Estimation of daily global solar radiation from measured temperatures at Cañada de Luque, Córdoba, Argentina
Solar radiation is the most important source of renewable energy in the planet; it's important to solar engineers, designers and architects, and it's also fundamental for efficiently determining irrigation water needs and potential yield of crops, among others. Complete and accurate solar radiation data at a specific region are indispensable. For locations where measured values are not available, several models have been developed to estimate solar radiation. The objective of this paper was to calibrate, validate and compare five representative models to predict global solar radiation, adjusting the empirical coefficients to increase the local applicability and to develop a linear model. All models were based on easily available meteorological variables, without sunshine hours as input, and were used to estimate the daily solar radiation at Cañada de Luque (Córdoba, Argentina).
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2013
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Authors: | Almorox, Javier ; Bocco, Mónica ; Willington, Enrique |
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Renewable Energy. - Elsevier, ISSN 0960-1481. - Vol. 60.2013, C, p. 382-387
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Subject: | Daily global solar radiation | Hargreaves method | Regression analysis | Temperature | Typical meteorological data |
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