Modeling Solar Radiation at the Earth’s Surface

Chapter 1 Solar Radiation Measurement: Progress in Radiometry for Improved Modeling

Chapter 2 Fractal Classification of Typical Meteorological Days from Global Solar Irradiance: Application to Five Sites of Different Climates

Chapter 3 Modelling the Statistical Properties of Solar Radiation and Proposal of a Technique Based on Boltzmann Statistics

Chapter 4 A Method for Determining the Solar Global and Defining the Diffuse and Beam Irradiation on a Clear Day

Chapter 5 Recent Advances in the Relations between Bright Sunshine Hours and Solar Irradiation

Chapter 6 Solar Irradiation Estimation Methods from Sunshine and Cloud Cover Data

Chapter 7 Solar Irradiation via Air Temperature Data

Chapter 8 Models of Diffuse Solar Fraction

Chapter 9 Estimation of Surface Solar Radiation with Artificial Neural Networks

Chapter 10 Dynamic Behavior of Solar Radiation

Chapter 11 Time Series Modelling of Solar Radiation

Chapter 12 A new Procedure to Generate Solar Radiation Time Series from achine Learning Theory

Chapter 13 Use of Sunshine Number for Solar Irradiance Time Series Generation

Chapter 14 The Meteorological Radiation Model (MRM): Advancements and Applications

Chapter 15 Chain of Algorithms to Compute Hourly Radiation Data on Inclined Planes used in Meteonorm

Chapter 16 Modelling UV–B Irradiance in Canada

Chapter 17 Angular Distribution of Sky Diffuse Radiance and Luminance

Chapter 18 Solar Radiation Derived from Satellite Images

Chapter 19 Generation of Solar Radiation Maps from Long-Term Satellite Data

Chapter 20 Validation and Ranking Methodologies for Solar Radiation Models