Research Article

Empirical Models for Estimating Global Solar Radiation over the Ashanti Region of Ghana

Table 4

Summary of the model evaluations using air temperature.

Author MBE (MJ m−2 day−1)MPE (%)RMSE (MJ m−2 day−1)

Proposed0.91260.8328−0.29731.70750.9859
Hargreaves and Samani (1982) [14]0.88220.77821.1709−6.72553.8835
Chandel et al. (2005) [13]0.91490.83700.9409−5.40443.1206