14 Aug 2018
| 14 Aug 2018
A stochastic model for the hourly solar radiation process for application in renewable resources management
Giannis Koudouris
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Heroon Polytechneiou 5, 157 80, Zographou, Greece
Panayiotis Dimitriadis
Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Heroon Polytechneiou 5, 157 80, Zographou, Greece
Theano Iliopoulou
Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Heroon Polytechneiou 5, 157 80, Zographou, Greece
Nikos Mamassis
Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Heroon Polytechneiou 5, 157 80, Zographou, Greece
Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Heroon Polytechneiou 5, 157 80, Zographou, Greece
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Short summary
The aim of this work is to investigate the stochastic nature and time evolution of the solar radiation process for daily and hourly scale, with the ultimate goal of creating a new cyclostationary stochastic model capable of reproducing the dependence structure and the marginal distribution of hourly solar radiation via the clearness index KT.
The aim of this work is to investigate the stochastic nature and time evolution of the solar...
