Terrestrial irradiation-sunshine duration clustering and prediction

Sen Z., Oztopal A.

ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT, cilt.44, sa.13, ss.2159-2174, 2003 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 44 Sayı: 13
  • Basım Tarihi: 2003
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/s0196-8904(02)00236-4
  • Dergi Adı: ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.2159-2174
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The relationship between terrestrial irradiance and sunshine duration is not crisp and there are scatters around a general trend, which most often is expressed to occur in the form of a linear expression. This study presents a way of grouping the solar irradiation-sunshine duration data into convenient seasonal subgroups and then makes predictions within each of the groups quantitatively. In the classical Angstrom or other approaches, the seasonal variations are not considered, and therefore, rather global parameter estimations are obtained. However, the seasonal methodology of this paper provides more detailed interpretations in addition to seasonal effects and parameter estimations. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.