The Angstrom-Prescott formula is commonly used in climatological calculation methods of solar radiation simulation. Fitting the coefficients is carried out using linear regression and in recent years it has been found...The Angstrom-Prescott formula is commonly used in climatological calculation methods of solar radiation simulation. Fitting the coefficients is carried out using linear regression and in recent years it has been found that these coefifcients have obvious spatial variability. A common solution is to divide the study area into several subregions and ift the coefifcients one by one. Here, we use ground observation data for sunshine hours and solar radiation from 1961 to 2010. Adopting extraterrestrial radiation as the initial value, Angstrom-Prescott coefifcients are obtained by Geographically Weighted Regression at a national scale. The surfaces of solar radiation are obtained on the basis of the surfaces of sunshine hours interpolated by high accuracy surface modeling and astronomical radiation;results from spatial y nonstationary and error comparison tests show that Angstrom-Prescott coefifcients have signiifcant spatial nonstationarity. Compared to existing research methods, the method presented here achieves a better simulation effect.展开更多
基金National Key Technologies R&D Program of China(2013BAC03B05)National High-tech R&D Program of China(2013AA122003)
文摘The Angstrom-Prescott formula is commonly used in climatological calculation methods of solar radiation simulation. Fitting the coefficients is carried out using linear regression and in recent years it has been found that these coefifcients have obvious spatial variability. A common solution is to divide the study area into several subregions and ift the coefifcients one by one. Here, we use ground observation data for sunshine hours and solar radiation from 1961 to 2010. Adopting extraterrestrial radiation as the initial value, Angstrom-Prescott coefifcients are obtained by Geographically Weighted Regression at a national scale. The surfaces of solar radiation are obtained on the basis of the surfaces of sunshine hours interpolated by high accuracy surface modeling and astronomical radiation;results from spatial y nonstationary and error comparison tests show that Angstrom-Prescott coefifcients have signiifcant spatial nonstationarity. Compared to existing research methods, the method presented here achieves a better simulation effect.
