Estimating the diffuse component from daily and monthly measurements of global radiation

Roderick, Michael

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Estimating the diffuse component from daily and monthly measurements of global radiation

Date

1999

Authors

Roderick, Michael

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

In this study ≃83 000 measurements of daily global (R(s)) and diffuse (R(d)) solar irradiance from 25 sites in Australia and Antarctica (12°S-67°S, 1971-1995) are used to develop correlations between the diffuse fraction (R(d)/R(s)) and the clearness