Research Article

Assessment of Artificial Neural Networks for Hourly Solar Radiation Prediction

Table 1

Evaluation statistics for GRNN.

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

September 2000 4.5 25.9 5.7 −1.5 −0.33
March 2002 6.3 34.6 6.8 −2.3 −0.44
June 2004 3.5 19 4.5 −2.8 −0.07
Average 4.8 26.5 5.7 −2.2 −0.28
Diffuse radiation
September 2000 4.7 15.8 5.7 −1.5 −0.33
March 2002 7 17.8 7.2 −0.32 −0.13
June 2004 3.3 11.4 4.5 −1.11 −0.44
Average 5 15 5.8 −0.98 −0.3