In recent years, renewable energy utilisation in various applications has increased significantly. Applications involving solar thermal energy include air and water heating whilst solar photovoltaic systems have been installed to provide electricity for households in urban and rural areas of the...

The knowledge of the amount of solar radiation in an area/region is very essential in the field of Solar Energy Physics. In this work two equations are put forward for estimating global solar radiation from common climate variables in data sparse regions. The first is the Hargreaves equation,...

Fifty-four broadband clear-sky models for computation of global solar irradiance on horizontal surfaces are tested by using measured data from Romania (South-Eastern Europe). The input data to the models consist of surface meteorological data, column integrated data and data derived from...

In this study, daily global radiation for Toledo (39°53′05″N, 4°02′58″W, Spain) were utilized to determine monthly-specific equations for estimating global solar radiation from sunshine hours and to obtain improved fits to monthly Angström–Prescott's coefficients.

Eight models using only the sunshine duration for estimating the global solar radiation on a horizontal surface are evaluated at Changdu, Geer, Lasa and Naqu stations in Tibet, China against the measured meteorological data during 1994–2008. Based on statistical error tests, results show that...

Global solar radiation (GSR) data are desirable for many areas of research and applications in various engineering fields. However, GSR is not as readily available as air temperature data. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are effective tools to model nonlinear systems and require fewer inputs....

An analysis and comparison of daily and yearly solar irradiation from the satellite CM SAF database and a set of 301 stations from the Spanish SIAR network is performed using data of 2010 and 2011. This analysis is completed with the comparison of the estimations of effective irradiation...

Fifty-four broad band models for computation of global and diffuse irradiance on horizontal surface are shortly presented and tested. The input data for these models consist of surface meteorological data, atmospheric column integrated data and data derived from satellite measurements. The...

This work carries out the availability of the global solar radiation over the site of Borj-Cedria in the gulf of Tunis (36°43′04″N latitude and 10°25′41″E longitude), Tunisia. Global solar radiation variability was assessed on hourly, daily, monthly and seasonal scales. Solar potential...

The first observations of UV (290–400 nm) ever made at an agro-meteorological/radiometric station located in the metropolitan region of Maceió (9°28′S, 35°49′W, 127 m), Northeast Brazil, during 2008 are reported in this work. Solar UV radiation variability in different time scales and...