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The main objective of this paper is to present Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) as a new accurate soft computing model to predict daily and monthly solar radiation at Mashhad city, Iran. For this purpose, metrological data was collected from Iranian Meteorological Organization for Mashhad city located at the North-East for the period of 2009–2014. All the collected data include of maximum, minimum...