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calc_globrad

Calculate global solar radiation from sunshine duration hours

Description

Uses functions taken from the 'sirad' package to determine astronomical daylength and extraterrestrial radiation, from which global radiation is calculated using the Angström-formula.

Usage

calc_globrad(dates, sunhours, lat, a0 = 0.25, b0 = 0.5, full_output = FALSE)

Arguments

`dates`	Date vector
`sunhours`	Vector of sunshine duration hours, same length as dates.
`lat`	Latitude in decimal degrees.
`a0`	Angström parameter a, defaults to 0.25.
`b0`	Angström parameter b, defaults to 0.5.
`full_output`	Return extraterrestrial radiation and daylength along with global radiation?

Value

A sequence of global radiation in MJ/(m² d) with the length of dates, or (if full_output = TRUE) a data.frame holding day of year, dates, sunhours, daylength, and extraterrestrial and calculated global solar radiation. A warning is generated if some sunshine duration hours are higher than the expected daylength at the specified latitude.

Examples

dates <- seq.Date(as.Date("2002-01-01"), as.Date("2003-12-31"), by = 'day')
calc_globrad(dates, sunhours = runif(365, 0, 7),lat = 52.8)

LWFBrook90R

Simulate Evapotranspiration and Soil Moisture with the SVAT Model LWF-Brook90

v0.4.4

GPL-3

Authors

Paul Schmidt-Walter [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2699-0893>), Volodymyr Trotsiuk [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8363-656X>), Klaus Hammel [aut], Martin Kennel [aut], Anthony Federer [aut], Robert Nuske [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9773-2061>), Bavarian State Institute of Forestry (LWF) [cph, fnd], Northwest German Forest Research Institute (NW-FVA) [cph, fnd]

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