A comparative study of monthly mean daily clear sky radiation over India

An attempt has been made to analyze the three years measured data of different Indian cities and to develop a new set of equations to estimate the monthly mean daily clear sky radiation over India. The statistical analysis has been used for present study. The comparison of present estimates has been made with various earlier proposed models. The root mean square error (RMSE) and mean bias error (MBE) have also been computed to test the accuracy of the proposed equations. The percentage of MBE with new constant for all stations under consideration is varying from 0.22 to 2.09 % while RMSE is varies from 2.22 to 10.37%. It is found that in comparison to other models, the results with new proposed equations estimates better for the climate of India. Copyright © 2010 International Energy and Environment Foundation - All rights reserved.