Estimating daily global solar radiation by day of the year in six cities located in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

Quej, Victor H, Almorox Alonso, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1523-0979, Ibrakhimov, Mirzakhayot and Saito, Laurel (2017). Estimating daily global solar radiation by day of the year in six cities located in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. "Journal of Cleaner Production", v. 141 ; pp. 75-82. ISSN 0959-6526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.062.

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Title: Estimating daily global solar radiation by day of the year in six cities located in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
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Item Type: Article
Título de Revista/Publicación: Journal of Cleaner Production
Date: January 2017
ISSN: 0959-6526
Volume: 141
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Freetext Keywords: global solar radiation, day of year, empirical models, Mexico
Faculty: E.T.S.I. Agrónomos (UPM) [antigua denominación]
Department: Producción Agraria
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Abstract

Prediction of daily global solar radiation by using day of the year is particularly attractive because this parameter is not dependent on the input of meteorological parameters. In this study, four existing day of the year-based (DYB) models were evaluated and a new empirical DYB model was developed for estimating daily global solar radiation on a horizontal surface for six automatic weather stations of Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. The performance of the models was assessed with root mean squared error (RMSE), mean bias error (MBE), mean percentage error (MPE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), mean absolute bias error (MABE) and coefficient of determination (R2). The results show that the new proposed Gaussian DYB model estimates daily solar radiation better than other DYB models. Furthermore, a seasonal analysis shows that the model has good performance in all seasons, including in the rainy season. The results also suggest that the new model can be useful for highly variable climate conditions.

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Item ID: 43543
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/43543/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:43543
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.062
Official URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...
Deposited by: Sr Victor Hugo Quej Chi
Deposited on: 11 Oct 2016 07:02
Last Modified: 01 Jan 2018 23:30
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