An Improved ångström-type model for estimating solar radiation over the tibetan plateau
Liu, J
Pan, T
Chen, D
Zhou, X
Yu, Q
Flerchinger, GN
Liu, DL
Zou, X
Linderholm, HW
Du, J
Wu, D
Shen, Y
Flerchinger, GN
Liu, DL
Zou, X
Linderholm, HW
Du, J
Wu, D
Shen, Y
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Energies, 2017, 10 (7)
- Issue Date:
- 2017-01-01
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© 2017 by the authors. For estimating the annual mean of daily solar irradiation in plateau mountainous regions, observed data from 15 radiation stations were used to validate different empirical estimation methods over the Tibetan Plateau. Calibration indicates that sunshine-based site-dependent models perform better than temperature-based ones. Then, the highly rated sunshine-based Ångström model and temperature-based Bristow model were selected for regional application. The geographical models perform much better than the average models, but still not ideally. To achieve better performance, the Ångström-type model was improved using altitude and water vapor pressure as the leading factors. The improved model can accurately predict the coefficients at all the stations, and performs the best among all models with an average Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency value of 0.856. Spatial distribution of the annual mean of daily solar irradiation was then estimated with the improved model. It is indicated that there is an increasing trend of radiation from east to west, with a great center of the annual mean of daily solar irradiation on southwest Tibetan Plateau ranging from 20 to 24 MJm2. The improved model should be further validated against observations before its applications in other plateau mountainous regions.
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