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The estimation of solar radiation under cloudless skies with atmospheric dust
Author(s) -
Collier L. R.,
Lockwood J. G.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49710042614
Subject(s) - environmental science , sky , radiation , atmospheric sciences , meteorology , climatology , geography , physics , geology , quantum mechanics
Observations of global radiation received in a small catchment in Yorkshire were analysed for clear sky conditions and an empirical relationship of the form Q = 1380 sin θ( a + b sin θ) W m −2 Found, between incoming solar radiation Q and the solar elevation θ, where a and b are constants. The constants differ markedly from those obtained in a similar analysis of data from eastern Atlantic weather ships, suggesting that the radiation, under cloudless skies, over inland Britain, is only about 60% of that received under cloudless skies over the eastern Atlantic.