AtmosphericEmissivity: Atmospheric Emissivity

In EcoHydRology: A Community Modeling Foundation for EcoHydrology

Description

The emissivity of the atmsophere [-]

Usage

AtmosphericEmissivity(airtemp, cloudiness, vp=NULL, opt="linear")

Arguments

airtemp	Air temperature: air temperature [C]
cloudiness	Cloudiness: fraction of the sky covered in clouds [-]
vp	Vapor Pressure : [kPa]
opt	option: either "linear" for a linear relationship between clear sky emissivity and temperature, or "Brutsaert" to use Brutsaert's(1975) clear sky emissivity formulation - this requires input for vapor pressure

Value

The emissivity of the atmsophere [-]

Author(s)

Fuka, D.R., Walter, M.T., Archibald, J.A.

References

Campbell, G. S., Norman, J.M., 1998. An Introduction to Environmental Biophysics, second ed., Springer, New York, p. 286.

Brutsaert, W. (1975 On a Derivable Formula for Long-Wave Radiation From Clear Skies. Water Resources Research, 11(5) 742-744

Examples

temp=15
clouds=.5
AtmEm=AtmosphericEmissivity(temp,clouds)
print(AtmEm)

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