SunPosition: Get Solar Elevation and Azimuth

In stevencarlislewalker/thermopic: Predicting and Visualizing the Seasonal Availability of Thermal Habitat in Lakes

Description

(Model) Get solar elevation and azimuth for a specified date and location. The implementation follows the Astronomer's Almanac algorithm.

Usage

SunPosition(year, month, day, hour = 12, min = 0, sec = 0, lat, long)

Arguments

year	TODO
month	TODO
day	TODO
hour	TODO
min	TODO
sec	TODO
lat	TODO
long	TODO

References

Joseph J. Michalsky. The astronomical almanacs algorithm for approximate solar position (19502050). Solar Energy, 40(3):227235, 1988. It's straightforward to translate it in any other language: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/257717/position-of-the-sun-given-time-of-day-and-lat-long

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/solcalc/ Checked against NOAA on-line calculator

stevencarlislewalker/thermopic documentation built on March 10, 2020, 8:31 p.m.