Research Article

Assessment of Artificial Neural Networks for Hourly Solar Radiation Prediction

Table 3

Evaluation statistics for CFNN.

Global radiationMABE (%)MRSE ( )MRSE (%)MBE ( )MBE (%)

September 2000 22.1 101.5 22.5 −26.8 −6
March 2002 21.8 108.2 21.3 −23.12 −4.6
June 2004 22.7 88.3 21.1 7.2 1.7
Average 22.2 99.3 21.6 −42.7 −8.9
Diffused radiation
September 2000 20.6 59.3 21.9 −13.6 −5
March 2002 28.8 62.6 25.4 −11.6 −4.7
June 2004 18.9 48.1 19.2
Average 22.8 56.7 22.2 −24.3 −9.4