Calculating global solar irradiation from global horizontal irradiation only is a difficult task, especially when the time step is small and the data are not averaged. We used an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to realize this conversion. The ANN is optimized and tested on the basis of five...

Calculation of solar global irradiation on tilted planes from only horizontal global one is particularly difficult when the time step is small. We used an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to realize this conversion at a 10-min time step. The ANN is developed and optimized using five years of...

Converting measured horizontal global solar irradiance in tilted ones is a difficult task, particularly for a small time-step and for not-averaged data. Conventional methods (statistical, correlation, …) are not always efficient with time-step less than one hour; thus, we want to know if an...