Modelling direct, diffuse, and total solar radiation for cloudless days
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Atmosphere-Ocean
- Vol. 14 (4) , 298-308
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00046973.1976.9648425
Abstract
A simple form of solar radiation model was analysed for cloudless days for Goose, Nfld., Port Hardy, B.C., and Edmonton, Alta. Performance for daily values of total solar radiation was satisfactory; however, data for Goose indicated that the model over‐and under‐estimated the direct and diffuse components of solar radiation, respectively. Modifications, including solving for an aerosol parameter k and substituting 0.6 forward scattering instead of the more commonly used 0.5, improved model performance for direct and diffuse radiation.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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