Badescu Viorel (ed.) Modeling Solar Radiation at the Earth's Surface

Springer, 2008. — xxxiii, 517 p.Solar radiation data at ground level are important for a wide range of applications in meteorology, engineering, agricultural sciences (particularly for soil physics, agricultural hydrology, crop modeling and estimating crop evapo-transpiration), as well as in the health sector and in research in many fields of the natural sciences.Solar Radiation Measurement: Progress in Radiometry for Improved Modeling (Christian A. Gueymard and Daryl R. Myers).
Fractal Classification of Typical Meteorological Days from Global Solar Irradiance: Application to Five Sites of Different Climates (Samia Harrouni).
Modelling the Statistical Properties of Solar Radiation and Proposal of a Technique Based on Boltzmann Statistics (Joaquin Tovar-Pescador).
A Method for Determining the Solar Global and Defining the Diffuse and Beam Irradiation on a Clear Day (Amiran Ianetz and Avraham Kudish).
5 Recent Advances in the Relations between Bright Sunshine Hours and Solar Irradiation (Bulent G. Akinoglu).
Solar Irradiation Estimation Methods from Sunshine and Cloud Cover Data (Ahmet Duran Şahin and Zekai Şen).
Solar Irradiation via Air Temperature Data (Marius Paulescu).
Models of Diffuse Solar Fraction (John Boland and Barbara Ridley).
Estimation of Surface Solar Radiation with Artificial Neural (Filippos S. Tymvios, Silas Chr. Michaelides and Chara S. Skouteli).
Dynamic Behavior of Solar Radiation (Teolan Tomson, Viivi Russak and Ain Kallis).
Time Series Modelling of Solar Radiation (John Boland).
A new Procedure to Generate Solar Radiation Time Series from Machine Learning Theory (Llanos Mora-López)..
Use of Sunshine Number for Solar Irradiance Time Series Generation (Viorel Badescu).
The Meteorological Radiation Model (MRM): Advancements and Applications (Harry D. Kambezidis and Basil E. Psiloglou).
Chain of Algorithms to Compute Hourly Radiation Data on Inclined Planes used in Meteonorm (Jan Remund).
Modelling UV–B Irradiance in Canada (John Davies and Jacqueline Binyamin).
Solar Radiation Derived from Satellite Images (Jesús Polo, Luis F. Zarzalejo and Lourdes Ramírez).
Generation of Solar Radiation Maps from Long-Term Satellite Data (Serm Janjai).
Validation and Ranking Methodologies for Solar Radiation Models (Christian A. Gueymard and Daryl R. Myers).