Missing data imputation of solar radiation data under different atmospheric conditions

Global solar broadband irradiance on a planar surface is measured at weather stations by pyranometers. In the case of the present research, solar radiation values from nine meteorological stations of the MeteoGalicia real-time observational network, captured and stored every ten minutes, are conside...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2014-10, Vol.14 (11), p.20382-20399
Main Authors: Turrado, Concepción Crespo, López, María Del Carmen Meizoso, Lasheras, Fernando Sánchez, Gómez, Benigno Antonio Rodríguez, Rollé, José Luis Calvo, Juez, Francisco Javier de Cos
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aerosols
Algorithms
Atmosphere - analysis
Atmospherics
Computer Simulation
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Mathematical analysis
Mice
Missing data
missing data imputation
Models, Statistical
multiple linear regression
Multivariate Analysis
multivariate imputation by chained equations (MICE)
Networks
pyranometer
Radiation
Radiation Dosage
Radiometry - methods
Regression analysis
Reproducibility of Results
Sample Size
Sensitivity and Specificity
Sensors
Solar energy
Solar Energy - statistics & numerical data
Solar radiation
Time series
Variables
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Summary:Global solar broadband irradiance on a planar surface is measured at weather stations by pyranometers. In the case of the present research, solar radiation values from nine meteorological stations of the MeteoGalicia real-time observational network, captured and stored every ten minutes, are considered. In this kind of record, the lack of data and/or the presence of wrong values adversely affects any time series study. Consequently, when this occurs, a data imputation process must be performed in order to replace missing data with estimated values. This paper aims to evaluate the multivariate imputation of ten-minute scale data by means of the chained equations method (MICE). This method allows the network itself to impute the missing or wrong data of a solar radiation sensor, by using either all or just a group of the measurements of the remaining sensors. Very good results have been obtained with the MICE method in comparison with other methods employed in this field such as Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) and Multiple Linear Regression (MLR). The average RMSE value of the predictions for the MICE algorithm was 13.37% while that for the MLR it was 28.19%, and 31.68% for the IDW.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s141120382