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. 2026 Feb 16;16:6716. doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-39971-w

Table 7.

MBE of the satellite-estimated GHI against ground measured GHI using Inline graphic from different models (in W/m2). 

ML model Chiba Danang Gurgaon Xianghe Adrar Ghardaia Pretoria All unseen sites
XGBoost -5.5 6.7 4.2 4.0 -12.3 -3.4 -12.7 -6.2
RandomForest 1.2 23.4 22.0 9.1 -12.1 -3.7 -8.8 -1.1
QVC 6.9 -32.1 -21.0 -4.2 2.9 -9.5 -29.9 -16
NeuralNetTorch -10.4 5.0 15.4 7.6 -17.3 -12 -7.4 -5.4
LighGBM -5.4 6.3 6.8 8.6 -9.2 -3.1 -15.1 -6.2
ExtraTrees -1.3 23.6 28.2 12.3 -16.1 -5.7 -5.7 0
CatBoost -4.4 7.7 1.9 1.1 -11.4 -3.5 -0.9 -1.5
Reference McClear 7.8 33.5 8.7 -17.1 -2.9 9.5 29.9 15.5