Estimation of Monthly Average Daily Solar Radiation from Meteorological Parameters: Sunshine Hours and Measured Temperature in Tepi, Ethiopia

Girma Dejene Nage

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Estimation of Monthly Average Daily Solar Radiation from Meteorological Parameters: Sunshine Hours and Measured Temperature in Tepi, Ethiopia

Girma Dejene Nage

Published in International Journal of Energy and Environmental Science (Volume 3, Issue 1)

Received: 14 October 2017 Accepted: 1 November 2017 Published: 28 February 2018

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In this study, several equations were considered to estimate monthly average daily solar radiation from meteorological parameters: Sunshine hours and measured Temperature in Tepi, Ethiopia. These equations include the original Angstrom-Prescott linear regression and modified models (quadratic, polynomial, logarithmic and exponential functions) and temperature based models. The performance of the models was evaluated using the methods of statistical analysis. This study shows that from sunshine hours based models Samuel and Newland models are appropriate for Tepi due to their better statistical model performance analysis. From temperature based models, Chen et al., models fitted the data adequately and can be used to estimate solar radiation from temperature measurement. However, the developed correlation models give better statistical model performance analysis and therefore, it can be recommended that these models are used reasonably well for estimating the solar radiation in Tepi and possibly in its surroundings sites with similar climatic conditions if empirical coefficients are correctly calibrated.

Published in	International Journal of Energy and Environmental Science (Volume 3, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijees.20180301.12
Page(s)	19-26
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Solar Radiation, Meteorological Parameters, Correlation Model, Tepi

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Girma Dejene Nage

Department of Physics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Mizan-Tepi University, Tepi, Ethiopia

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Girma Dejene Nage. Estimation of Monthly Average Daily Solar Radiation from Meteorological Parameters: Sunshine Hours and Measured Temperature in Tepi, Ethiopia. Int. J. Energy Environ. Sci. 2018, 3(1), 19-26. doi: 10.11648/j.ijees.20180301.12

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Girma Dejene Nage. Estimation of Monthly Average Daily Solar Radiation from Meteorological Parameters: Sunshine Hours and Measured Temperature in Tepi, Ethiopia. Int J Energy Environ Sci. 2018;3(1):19-26. doi: 10.11648/j.ijees.20180301.12

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