Fast radiative transfer parameterisation for assessing the surface solar irradiance: The Heliosat‑4 method

The new Heliosat‑4 method estimates the downwelling shortwave irradiance received at ground level in all sky conditions. It provides the global irradiance and its direct and diffuse components on a horizontal plane and the direct irradiance for a plane normal to sun rays. It is a fully physical mode...

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Main Authors: Zhipeng Qu, Armel Oumbe, Philippe Blanc, Bella Espinar, Gerhard Gesell, Benoît Gschwind, Lars Klüser, Mireille Lefèvre, Laurent Saboret, Marion Schroedter-Homscheidt, Lucien Wald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Borntraeger 2017-02-01
Series:Meteorologische Zeitschrift
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/metz/2016/0781