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http://dx.doi.org/10.5532/KJAFM.2019.21.2.85

Development of a deep neural network model to estimate solar radiation using temperature and precipitation  

Kang, DaeGyoon (Interdisciplinary Program in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Seoul National University)
Hyun, Shinwoo (Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University)
Kim, Kwang Soo (Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University)
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Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology / v.21, no.2, 2019 , pp. 85-96 More about this Journal
Abstract
Solar radiation is an important variable for estimation of energy balance and water cycle in natural and agricultural ecosystems. A deep neural network (DNN) model has been developed in order to estimate the daily global solar radiation. Temperature and precipitation, which would have wider availability from weather stations than other variables such as sunshine duration, were used as inputs to the DNN model. Five-fold cross-validation was applied to train and test the DNN models. Meteorological data at 15 weather stations were collected for a long term period, e.g., > 30 years in Korea. The DNN model obtained from the cross-validation had relatively small value of RMSE ($3.75MJ\;m^{-2}\;d^{-1}$) for estimates of the daily solar radiation at the weather station in Suwon. The DNN model explained about 68% of variation in observed solar radiation at the Suwon weather station. It was found that the measurements of solar radiation in 1985 and 1998 were considerably low for a small period of time compared with sunshine duration. This suggested that assessment of the quality for the observation data for solar radiation would be needed in further studies. When data for those years were excluded from the data analysis, the DNN model had slightly greater degree of agreement statistics. For example, the values of $R^2$ and RMSE were 0.72 and $3.55MJ\;m^{-2}\;d^{-1}$, respectively. Our results indicate that a DNN would be useful for the development a solar radiation estimation model using temperature and precipitation, which are usually available for downscaled scenario data for future climate conditions. Thus, such a DNN model would be useful for the impact assessment of climate change on crop production where solar radiation is used as a required input variable to a crop model.
Keywords
Solar radiation; Deep neural network; Temperature; Precipitation;
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