Energy Conversion and Management, Vol.168, 651-652, 2018
Comments on "Classification of solar radiation zones and general models for estimating the daily global solar radiation on horizontal surfaces in China", by Liu et al. [Energy Conversion and Management, 2017.10.043.]
This study presents some comments on paper "Classification of solar radiation zones and general models for estimating the daily global solar radiation on horizontal surfaces in China", [Energy Conversion and Management, 2017.10.043.] proposed by Liu et al. (2017). In their paper, the selected 4 models were studied before by Almorox and Hontoria (2004) in Spain and they did not present all discussion of their results which indicated that the cubic model gave a slight improve rather than the quadratic and linear models. The proposed general global solar radiation model is not new, it was developed and evaluated before by Rensheng et al. (2006).
Keywords:Solar energy;Global solar radiation;Empirical models;China;Solar energy, Solar climatic zoning