Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You and Your Team.

Learn More →

A clear‐sky spectral solar radiation model for snow‐covered mountainous terrain

A clear‐sky spectral solar radiation model for snow‐covered mountainous terrain A clear‐sky spectral solar radiation model for direct and diffuse fluxes, combined with topographic calculations from digital terrain data, computes either incident, net, or reflected solar radiation at any point on a snow surface in mountainous terrain. The radiation may be integrated over any wavelength range from 250 to 5000 nm, or over any time step. Atmospheric attenuation parameters are ozone, water vapor, the Angstrom turbidity coefficient and exponent, and the absorptance to reflectance ratio of the atmospheric aerosols. The model derives these, from measurements which may contain both systematic and random errors, by finding the least squares solution to an overdetermined set of nonlinear equations. For calculations over a specified area, it employs table look‐up procedures, so that computation speed for the spectral model approaches that for a lumped model. Thus it may be useful as part of a snow surface energy budget calculation over a drainage basin. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Water Resources Research Wiley

A clear‐sky spectral solar radiation model for snow‐covered mountainous terrain

Dozier, Jeff
Water Resources Research , Volume 16 (4) – Aug 1, 1980
Download PDF
10 pages
Read Article

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/a-clear-sky-spectral-solar-radiation-model-for-snow-covered-8DKb8abnvl
Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 1980 by the American Geophysical Union.
ISSN
0043-1397
eISSN
1944-7973
DOI
10.1029/WR016i004p00709
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

A clear‐sky spectral solar radiation model for direct and diffuse fluxes, combined with topographic calculations from digital terrain data, computes either incident, net, or reflected solar radiation at any point on a snow surface in mountainous terrain. The radiation may be integrated over any wavelength range from 250 to 5000 nm, or over any time step. Atmospheric attenuation parameters are ozone, water vapor, the Angstrom turbidity coefficient and exponent, and the absorptance to reflectance ratio of the atmospheric aerosols. The model derives these, from measurements which may contain both systematic and random errors, by finding the least squares solution to an overdetermined set of nonlinear equations. For calculations over a specified area, it employs table look‐up procedures, so that computation speed for the spectral model approaches that for a lumped model. Thus it may be useful as part of a snow surface energy budget calculation over a drainage basin.

Journal

Water Resources Research – Wiley

Published: Aug 1, 1980

References

  • A new method of interpolation and smooth curve fitting based on local procedures
    Akima, Akima
  • Studies of woodland light climate, 1, The photographic computation of light conditions
    Anderson, Anderson
  • Techniques for determining the turbidity of the atmosphere
    Ångstrom, Ångstrom
  • Parameters of atmospheric turbidity
    Ångstrom, Ångstrom
  • A comparison of several current optimization problems, and the use of transformations in constrained problems
    Box, Box
  • Derivative‐free analogues of the Levenberg‐Marquardt and Gauss algorithms for nonlinear least squares approximation
    Brown, Brown; Dennis, Dennis
  • Comparison of deterministic models for a high mountainous watershed with dominant snow yields: Analysis of sensitivity to model structure and to input data and their spatial extrapolation
    Charbonneau, Charbonneau; Lardeau, Lardeau; Obled, Obled
  • A hemispherical photocanopymeter
    Clark, Clark
  • Some characteristics of the albedo of snow
    Dirmhirn, Dirmhirn; Eaton, Eaton
  • An approach toward energy balance simulation over rugged terrain
    Dozier, Dozier; Outcalt, Outcalt
  • An approximate analysis of the solar reflectance and transmittance of a snow cover
    Dunkle, Dunkle; Bevans, Bevans
  • Hemispherical and woodland canopy photography and the light climate
    Evans, Evans; Coombe, Coombe
  • A method of calculating the direct shortwave radiation income of slopes
    Garnier, Garnier; Ohmura, Ohmura
  • Near‐infrared atmospheric transmission to solar radiation
    Gates, Gates
  • Infrared transmission of the atmosphere to solar radiation
    Gates, Gates; Harrop, Harrop
  • A revised method for determining the direct and diffuse components of the total short‐wave radiation
    Hay, Hay
  • A numerical solution to the equation of radiative transfer
    Herman, Herman; Browning, Browning
  • Absorption coefficient of ozone in the ultraviolet and visible regions
    Inn, Inn; Tanaka, Tanaka
  • A new table and approximation formula for the relative optical air mass
    Kasten, Kasten
  • Determination of the ground albedo and the index of absorption of atmospheric particulates by remote sensing, 2, Application
    King, King
  • Determination of the ground albedo and the index of absorption of atmospheric particulates by remote sensing, 1, Theory
    King, King; Herman, Herman
  • A parameterization for the absorption of solar radiation in the earth's atmosphere
    Lacis, Lacis; Hansen, Hansen
  • The spectral distribution of solar radiation at the earth's surface—Elements of a model
    Leckner, Leckner
  • A method for the solution of certain nonlinear problems in least squares
    Levenberg, Levenberg
  • An algorithm for least squares estimation of nonlinear parameters
    Marquardt, Marquardt
  • The luminous directional reflectance of snow
    Middleton, Middleton; Mungall, Mungall
  • Tables of the refractive index for standard air and the Rayleigh scattering coefficient for the spectral region between 0.2 and 20.0 microns and their application to atmospheric optics
    Penndorf, Penndorf
  • An estimation technique for snow surface albedo
    Petzold, Petzold
  • Energy balance computations of snowmelt in a subarctic area
    Price, Price; Dunne, Dunne
  • Trübungsmessungen im Gebirge
    Rössler, Rössler
  • Solar radiation incident upon slopes of different orientations
    Temps, Temps; Coulson, Coulson
  • Estimating atmospheric ozone for solar radiation models
    Van Heuklon, Van Heuklon
  • Application of computed global radiation to areas of high relief
    Williams, Williams; Barry, Barry; Andrews, Andrews
  • Accurate solar ‘constant’ determinations by cavity pyrheliometers
    Willson, Willson
  • Average vertical distribution of water vapour in the atmosphere
    Yamamoto, Yamamoto

You’re reading a free preview. Subscribe to read the entire article.

Try 2 weeks free now

DeepDyve is your
personal research library

It’s your single place to instantly
discover and read the research
that matters to you.

Enjoy affordable access to
over 18 million articles from more than
15,000 peer-reviewed journals.

All for just $49/month

Explore the DeepDyve Library

or browse the journals available

Search

Query the DeepDyve database, plus search all of PubMed and Google Scholar seamlessly

Organize

Save any article or search result from DeepDyve, PubMed, and Google Scholar... all in one place.

Access

Get unlimited, online access to over 18 million full-text articles from more than 15,000 scientific journals.

Your journals are on DeepDyve

Read from thousands of the leading scholarly journals from SpringerNature, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford University Press and more.

All the latest content is available, no embargo periods.

See the journals in your area

DeepDyve

Freelancer

DeepDyve

Pro

Price

FREE

$49/month
$499/year

Save searches from
Google Scholar,
PubMed

Create folders to
organize your research

Export folders, citations

Read DeepDyve articles

Abstract access only

Unlimited access to over
18 million full-text articles

Print

20 pages / month

Sign up
for free
Start 14 day
Free Trial