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  • Renewable Energy Systems
  • Climate Science
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Accurate solar radiation data is vital for energy development, but existing methods struggle with regional inconsistencies and fixed climate zones.
  • Challenges include achieving reliable, high-accuracy solar radiation datasets across diverse geographical areas.
  • Regional climatic inconsistencies and data gaps hinder effective solar energy resource assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a method for identifying dimensionless solar radiation profiles to accurately fill missing data.
  • To validate climatic consistency using characteristic attributes of dimensionless profiles.
  • To create a spatiotemporal solar radiation map and a weather-stochasticity-driven zoning approach for a specific region.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed a method for identifying dimensionless characterized solar radiation profiles.
  • Utilized characteristic attributes of these profiles for climatic consistency validation.
  • Developed a spatiotemporal solar radiation map and a novel zoning approach based on weather stochasticity.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method achieved high accuracy on untrained data, with R² values of 0.92-0.93 daily and 0.89-0.90 hourly.
  • A spatiotemporal solar radiation map of Kyushu was created, showing average annual radiation between 4616-5320 MJ m⁻² yr⁻¹.
  • A weather-stochasticity-driven zoning approach divided the region into four distinct zones.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method effectively fills missing solar radiation values with high accuracy, overcoming limitations of previous approaches.
  • The study successfully generated a detailed spatiotemporal solar radiation map and a new regional zoning strategy.
  • This research provides a robust framework for more reliable solar energy resource assessment and planning, considering climatic variability.