insol-package: Solar Radiation
In insol: Solar Radiation

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Calculates insolation and cast shadows on tilted and irregular surfaces, computes atmospheric transmittance and related parameters such as: Earth radius vector, declination, sunset and sunrise, daylength, equation of time, vector in the direction of the sun, vector normal to surface, and some atmospheric physics.

Package:	insol
Type:	Package
Version:	1.2
Date:	2019-01-16
License:	GPL-2
LazyLoad:	yes

Javier G. Corripio

Maintainer: Javier G. Corrripio <jgc@meteoexploration.com>

Additional information: https://meteoexploration.com/R/insol/

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Iqbal, M. (1983) An Introduction to Solar Radiation, Academic Press, Toronto.

Bourges, B.: 1985, Improvement in solar declination computation, Solar Energy 35(4), 367-369.

Corripio, J. G.: 2003, Vectorial algebra algorithms for calculating terrain parameters from DEMs and the position of the sun for solar radiation modelling in mountainous terrain, International Journal of Geographical Information Science 17(1), 1-23.

Danby, J. M. Eqn. 6.16.4 in Fundamentals of Celestial Mechanics, 2nd ed. Richmond, VA: Willmann-Bell, p. 207, 1988.

Meeus, J. 1999. Astronomical Algorithms. Willmann-Bell, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

Reda, I. and Andreas, A. 2003. Solar Position Algorithm for Solar Radiation Applications. 55 pp.; NREL Report No. TP-560-34302, Revised January 2008. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy08osti/34302.pdf

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/solcalc/calcdetails.html

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