An estimation of global solar radiation for Gulf Cooperative Council countries
- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Ambient Energy
- Vol. 15 (3) , 155-162
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01430750.1994.9675647
Abstract
There have been many trials to obtain empirical equations for estimating monthly global solar radiation. This paper modifies the model suggested by Barbaro et al. [10] so that it can be applied to six countries in the Arabian Gulf having a hot climate. The relationship obtained by the present work is: and the average deviation does not exceed 8%. Individual models are produced for each country separately to increase the accuracy. These are presented as equations 6 to 11 inclusive. The zone parameters for the overall and the individual models are shown in Table 1.Keywords
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