need better method of determining solar irradiation
need better method of determining solar irradiation
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Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows of a better way to determine the solar irradiation, at the Earth's surface, than with using ASHRAE's ClearSky Model, which uses a Cn constant to approximate the solar flux?
If you know of any, and are almost as simple to use as the ASHRAE model, I would very much appreciate any sources you could give me.
Thx
I was wondering if anyone knows of a better way to determine the solar irradiation, at the Earth's surface, than with using ASHRAE's ClearSky Model, which uses a Cn constant to approximate the solar flux?
If you know of any, and are almost as simple to use as the ASHRAE model, I would very much appreciate any sources you could give me.
Thx





RE: need better method of determining solar irradiation
RE: need better method of determining solar irradiation
Tunalover
RE: need better method of determining solar irradiation
It contains several solar radiation data elements
RE: need better method of determining solar irradiation
25362, that book is pretty good. I have another called gieck and gieck (or geek and geek).
tunalover, basically I have a 1.2m parabolic dish and I'm trying to determine what the maximum useful energy can be extracted from this device. It's like a 2nd law efficiency.
Mintjulep, I found something very similar from the nasa website. It gives the maximum and the average values of solar insolation at any location on earth. Thank you, though , for your reply.
RE: need better method of determining solar irradiation
TTFN