Solar irradiance variations and climate

1998 ◽  
pp. 103-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Foukal
Keyword(s):  
Solar Irradiance

Local and Regional Hour-Ahead Forecasts of Solar Irradiance with Training Data Selection and Support Vector Regression

2016 ◽  
Vol 136 (12) ◽  
pp. 898-907 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joao Gari da Silva Fonseca Junior ◽  
Hideaki Ohtake ◽  
Takashi Oozeki ◽  
Kazuhiko Ogimoto
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Regression ◽  
Solar Irradiance ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Data Selection ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Training Data Selection

The Fengyun-3E/Joint Total Solar Irradiance Absolute Radiometer: Instrument Design, Characterization, and Calibration

Solar Physics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 296 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Baoqi Song ◽  
Xin Ye ◽  
Wolfgang Finsterle ◽  
Manfred Gyo ◽  
Matthias Gander ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Irradiance ◽  
Total Solar Irradiance ◽  
Instrument Design

scholarly journals Neural Network Approach for Global Solar Irradiance Prediction at Extremely Short-Time-Intervals Using Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1213
Author(s):  
Ahmed Aljanad ◽  
Nadia M. L. Tan ◽  
Vassilios G. Agelidis ◽  
Hussain Shareef
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Solar Irradiance ◽  
Particle Swarm ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
Backpropagation Neural Networks ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Short Time

Hourly global solar irradiance (GSR) data are required for sizing, planning, and modeling of solar photovoltaic farms. However, operating and controlling such farms exposed to varying environmental conditions, such as fast passing clouds, necessitates GSR data to be available for very short time intervals. Classical backpropagation neural networks do not perform satisfactorily when predicting parameters within short intervals. This paper proposes a hybrid backpropagation neural networks based on particle swarm optimization. The particle swarm algorithm is used as an optimization algorithm within the backpropagation neural networks to optimize the number of hidden layers and neurons used and its learning rate. The proposed model can be used as a reliable model in predicting changes in the solar irradiance during short time interval in tropical regions such as Malaysia and other regions. Actual global solar irradiance data of 5-s and 1-min intervals, recorded by weather stations, are applied to train and test the proposed algorithm. Moreover, to ensure the adaptability and robustness of the proposed technique, two different cases are evaluated using 1-day and 3-days profiles, for two different time intervals of 1-min and 5-s each. A set of statistical error indices have been introduced to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm. From the results obtained, the 3-days profile’s performance evaluation of the BPNN-PSO are 1.7078 of RMSE, 0.7537 of MAE, 0.0292 of MSE, and 31.4348 of MAPE (%), at 5-s time interval, where the obtained results of 1-min interval are 0.6566 of RMSE, 0.2754 of MAE, 0.0043 of MSE, and 1.4732 of MAPE (%). The results revealed that proposed model outperformed the standalone backpropagation neural networks method in predicting global solar irradiance values for extremely short-time intervals. In addition to that, the proposed model exhibited high level of predictability compared to other existing models.

scholarly journals A physical downscaling algorithm for the generation of high-resolution spatiotemporal solar irradiance data

Solar Energy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. 508-517
Author(s):  
Grant Buster ◽  
Michael Rossol ◽  
Galen Maclaurin ◽  
Yu Xie ◽  
Manajit Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Solar Irradiance ◽  
Irradiance Data
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