A Guide to Shortwave Solar Radiation and Its Derivatives

Annual dynamics of shortwave radiation of bare arable lands on a ...

This paper quantitatively estimates the highest possible amount of shortwave radiation that could be reflected throughout the year from bare ...

A machine learning approach to estimation of downward solar ...

Shortwave solar radiation is an important component of the surface energy balance and provides the principal source of energy for ...

Prediction and validation of cloudless shortwave solar spectra ...

Unfortunately, spectral irradiance is usually not measured routinely, but only sporadically at a few experimental sites in the world. Consequently, the only way ...

Method to Calculate Uncertainties in Measuring Shortwave Solar ...

The report also shows that without appropriate corrections to solar measuring instruments (solar radiometers), the uncertainty of measuring shortwave solar ...

Ins and Outs of Shortwave Radiation | MyNASAData

Incoming ultraviolet, visible, and a limited portion of infrared energy (together sometimes called "shortwave radiation") from the Sun drive the Earth's climate ...

Developing a monthly radiative kernel for surface albedo change ...

where the shortwave radiative forcing results either from changes to solar energy ... and their derivatives may be obtained directly from the ...

Best Practices Handbook for the Collection and Use of Solar ...

This report is available at no cost from the National Renewable Energy. Laboratory (NREL) at www.nrel.gov/publications. Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308. National ...

Performance of Cloud 3D Solvers in Ice Cloud Shortwave Radiation ...

Light transfer calculations involving clouds are important because clouds reflect sunlight to space (a cooling effect) and also trap energy ...

Analytical model for solar irradiance near a planar vertical diffuse ...

and the experimental methods used to measure high-accuracy shortwave solar irradiance for validating the model. The impact of a reflector on collector ...

Trends from 30-Year Observations of Downward Solar Irradiance in ...

The shortwave downward solar irradiance (SDR) is an important factor that drives climate processes and energy production and can affect all living organisms ...

NEON ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

Solar radiation is a basic driver of many physical, chemical and biological processes, with the sun providing 99.98% of all energy reaching ...

Estimating surface solar irradiance from satellites - UMD

property is input into a fast RTM solver to obtain SSI. Of the various. RTM solvers, the two-stream approximation and its derivatives are preferred because they ...

Testing the usage of neural networks in the shortwave radiation ...

Radiation is often categorized into a shortwave spectrum, i.e. solar radiation, which is mostly visible light coming from the sun, and a ...

ecRad radiation scheme: User Guide (draft) - ECMWF Confluence Wiki

ecRad is an atmospheric radiation scheme designed for computing profiles of solar (or shortwave) and thermal infrared (or longwave) irradiances from the ...

Climate and Earth's Energy Balance - SERC - Carleton

You'll get a sense of how the solar energy moves through the Earth system. Pay attention to how the energy moves from the sun to Earth and back ...

Modeling Solar Radiation in the Forest Using Remote Sensing Data

Solar radiation, the radiant energy from the sun, is a driving variable for numerous ecological, physiological, and other life-sustaining processes in the ...

Shortwave and longwave radiative contributions to global warming ...

In contrast, consider a hypothetical step change in solar insolation (Fig. 1B): ASR is increased, and energy accumulates until the climate warms sufficiently ...

Measurement and Models of Solar Irradiance - CORE

The spectra for shortwave solar radiation is well documented in literature ... Except for the manual adjustment of the cone-lamp-receiver distance, ...

Earth's climate response to a changing Sun - EDP Open

and Chian, A. C.-L.: 2007, Handbook of the Solar-Terrestrial Envi- ... balance – the amount of shortwave (SW) radiation the Earth receives from the Sun.

Solar Radiation for Solar Energy Utilization - SpringerLink

1. Energy between the wavelengths of 280 and 4,000 nm, the so-called shortwave or optical radiation , is the primary subject of this article. ( ...