Research Article

Learning Processes to Predict the Hourly Global, Direct, and Diffuse Solar Irradiance from Daily Global Radiation with Artificial Neural Networks

Table 4

Correlation of different parameters to (HDI)D.

VariablesCorrelation to (HDI)D

Mean temperature (TD)0.520
Sunshine duration (SD)0.927
Declination angle (δ)0.65
Relative humidity (HrD)−0.669
Wind speed (WSD)0.687
Global solar radiation (GD)0.940
Daylight hours (DH)0.558
Extraterrestrial radiation (ERD)0.556
Sunshine fraction (SF)0.865