Extreme global solar irradiance due to cloud enhancement in northeastern Brazil

Ricardo Cesar de Andrade and Chigueru Tiba

Renewable Energy, 2016, vol. 86, issue C, 1433-1441

Abstract: Extraterrestrial radiation is attenuated by the atmosphere in different proportions depending mainly on the solar zenith angle and the altitude of the measurement point. In this work, very high and extreme total solar irradiance measurements are presented that, on some days, surpassed the Solar Constant corrected by the actual Sun-Earth distance (CSC).

Keywords: Total solar irradiance; Extreme value; Cloud enhancement; NE Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.09.012

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