Monthly-averaged hourly solar diffuse radiation models for world-wide locations

Muneer, Tariq; Gago, Eulalia Jadraque; Etxebarria, S

Abstract

Monthly-averaged daily global irradiation data are now easily available from NASA website for any global location. Using established models it is then possible to decompose the daily to averaged-hourly global irradiation. The missing link so far has been hourly averaged diffuse irradiation. In this article data was pooled from 14 world-wide locations to obtain a regression model to complete the above missing link. It was presently shown that the averaged–data regressions are distinctly different from previously available hour-by-hour regressions.

Citation

Muneer, T., Gago, E. J., & Etxebarria, S. (2015). Monthly-averaged hourly solar diffuse radiation models for world-wide locations. Future Cities and Environment, 1, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40984-015-0008-5

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2015
• Deposit Date: Feb 26, 2016
• Electronic ISSN: 2363-9075
• Publisher: BMC
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40984-015-0008-5
• Keywords: Solar radiation; Averaged-hourly solar diffuse fraction; Insolation; Solar diffuse radiation
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9578
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40984-015-0008-5