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To address this question for daily solar irradiation data recorded during the years 2013, 2014 and 2015 at 11 stations measuring solar irradiance on La Reunion French tropical Indian Ocean Island, we use a set of novel quantitative tools: Kolmogorov complexity (KC) with its derivative associated measures and Hamming distance (HAM) and their combination to assess complexity and corresponding predictability. We find that all half-day (from sunrise to sunset) solar irradiation series exhibit high complexity. However, all of them can be classified into three groups strongly influenced by trade winds that circulate in a \u201cflow around\u201d regime: the windward side (trade winds slow down), the leeward side (diurnal thermally-induced circulations dominate) and the coast parallel to trade winds (winds are accelerated due to Venturi effect). We introduce Kolmogorov time (KT) that quantifies the time span beyond which randomness significantly influences predictability.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e20080570","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,1]],"date-time":"2018-08-01T11:22:34Z","timestamp":1533122554000},"page":"570","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Analysis of Solar Irradiation Time Series Complexity and Predictability by Combining Kolmogorov Measures and Hamming Distance for La Reunion (France)"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8380-1844","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dragutin T.","family":"Mihailovi\u0107","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Dositej Obradovic Sq. 8, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia"}]},{"given":"Miloud","family":"Bessafi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of La R\u00e9union, Laboratoire d\u2019Energ\u00e9tique, d\u2019Electronique et Proc\u00e9d\u00e9s, 15 Avenue Ren\u00e9 Cassin, Sainte-Clotilde, 97715 La R\u00e9union, France"}]},{"given":"Sara","family":"Markovi\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICA), University of Trieste, via Valerio 6\/1, 34100 Trieste, Italy"}]},{"given":"Ilija","family":"Arseni\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Dositej Obradovic Sq. 8, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9696-6982","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Slavica","family":"Malinovi\u0107-Mili\u0107evi\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ACIMSI\u2014Center for Meteorology and Environmental Modeling, University of Novi Sad, Dositej Obradovic Sq. 7, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia"}]},{"given":"Patrick","family":"Jeanty","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of La R\u00e9union, Laboratoire d\u2019Energ\u00e9tique, d\u2019Electronique et Proc\u00e9d\u00e9s, 15 Avenue Ren\u00e9 Cassin, Sainte-Clotilde, 97715 La R\u00e9union, France"}]},{"given":"Mathieu","family":"Delsaut","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of La R\u00e9union, Laboratoire d\u2019Energ\u00e9tique, d\u2019Electronique et Proc\u00e9d\u00e9s, 15 Avenue Ren\u00e9 Cassin, Sainte-Clotilde, 97715 La R\u00e9union, France"}]},{"given":"Jean-Pierre","family":"Chabriat","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of La R\u00e9union, Laboratoire d\u2019Energ\u00e9tique, d\u2019Electronique et Proc\u00e9d\u00e9s, 15 Avenue Ren\u00e9 Cassin, Sainte-Clotilde, 97715 La R\u00e9union, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1646-4171","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nusret","family":"Dre\u0161kovi\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Sarajevo, Zmaj from Bosnia 33\u201335, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina"}]},{"given":"Anja","family":"Mihailovi\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ACIMSI\u2014Center for Meteorology and Environmental Modeling, University of Novi Sad, Dositej Obradovic Sq. 7, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"42","DOI":"10.1016\/j.solener.2012.11.007","article-title":"Scales of spatial and temporal variation of solar irradiance on Reunion tropical island","volume":"88","author":"Badosa","year":"2013","journal-title":"Sol. 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