Handbook of Estonian Solar Radiation Climate
CONTENTS:
- Introduction
- The Sun as a source of light
- Short history of solar radiation measurments
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Sun-Earth realtionshipsSolar radiation measurments
Radiation in the atmosphere and at the surface. Solar radiation instrumentation. - Requirements for radiation stations
- Sunshine duration
- Cloudiness
- Atmospheric transparency
- Instantaneous observations
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Hourly, daily, monthly and yearly totals of radiation (at Toravere and Tiirikoja)
Direct radiation. Diffuse radiation. Global radiation. Reflected short-wave radiation. Albedo. Ultraviolet radiation. Net radiation. - Long-term trends in the components of radiation budget.
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Radiation on non-horizontal surfaces.
Tilted surfaces. Vertical walls. - Illuminance
- Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR)
- Estonian-English-Russian dictionary of radiation terms
- References
- Symbols, units
- Appendixes