Reprint

Solar Radiation, Modelling and Remote Sensing

Edited by
June 2019
230 pages
  • ISBN978-3-03921-004-6 (Paperback)
  • ISBN978-3-03921-005-3 (PDF)

This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Solar Radiation, Modelling and Remote Sensing that was published in

Engineering
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Summary

Accurate solar radiation knowledge and its characterization on the Earth’s surface are of high interest in many aspects of environmental and engineering sciences. Modeling of solar irradiance from satellite imagery has become the most widely used method for retrieving solar irradiance information under total sky conditions, particularly in the solar energy community. Solar radiation modeling, forecasting, and characterization continue to be broad areas of study, research, and development in the scientific community. This Special Issue contains a small sample of the current activities in this field. Both the environmental and climatology community, as the solar energy world, share a great interest in improving modeling tools and capabilities for obtaining more reliable and accurate knowledge of solar irradiance components worldwide. The work presented in this Special Issue also remarks on the significant role that remote sensing technologies play in retrieving and forecasting solar radiation information.

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© 2019 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
Himawari-8/Advanced Meteorological Imager (Himawari-8/AHI); Geostationary Korea Multi-Purse Satellite/Advanced Meteorological Imager (GK-2A/AMI); broadband albedo at the top of the atmosphere (TOA albedo); reflected shortwave radiation at the top of the atmosphere (RSR); Clouds and the Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES); surface solar radiation; remote sensing; validation; India; solar radiation trends; Solis scheme; clear sky; radiation model; radiative transfer; high turbidity; water vapor; solar radiation; understory light condition; forest canopy; subcanopy light regime; PAR; shortwave radiation; light attenuation; remote sensing; solar irradiance; nowcasting; AMESIS; MSG; SEVIRI; radiance; brightness temperature; motion vector field; photosynthetically active radiation; global horizontal irradiance; clustering analysis; Kato bands; solar irradiance; MSG; SEVIRI; HRV; AMESIS; solar radiation; global horizontal irradiance; satellite-derived dataset; validation; solar energy; aerosol impact; earth observation; clear sky index; solar irradiance; downward shortwave radiation; global horizontal irradiance; solar variability; cloud categories; GOES satellites; evapotranspiration; insolation; surface energy balance; data fusion; water resource management; California Delta; solar radiation; radiative transfer; solar energy systems; solar radiation forecasting