In this study, seven different empirical equations are employed to estimate the monthly average daily global solar radiation on a horizontal surface for provinces in the different regions of Turkey, using only the relative duration of sunshine. Daily global solar radiation and sunshine...

The concept of probability density frequency, which is successfully used for analyses of wind speed and outdoor temperature distributions, is now modified and proposed for estimating solar radiation distributions for design and analysis of solar energy systems. In this study, global solar...

In this study, the global solar radiation on horizontal surface in Akure, Nigeria (Latitude 7.25° N and Longitude 5.2° E) using 22-year data (July 1983–June 2005) was analysed. Simple empirical correlations for evaluating the monthly average daily global solar radiation were developed. The...

A methodology for investigating the effect of a south oriented surface with varying inclination angle in reflecting natural light towards a north oriented glazing of a top lighting system is proposed for use under clear sky conditions. This was done based on mathematical simulation for a top...

Energy savings from the utilization of daylight will be influenced by the amount of external daylight incident on the external surface of the window plane. Therefore, savings from daylight will vary from a place to another, based on the prevailing sky conditions in the climate concerned. This...

Most of the watershed models contain snowmelt-computing options but there are modelling difficulties in snow-covered watersheds either due to paucity of data or in addressing snowmelt computation weakly. The temperature index (TI) and/or energy balance (EB algorithms of HEC-1, NWSRFS, PRMS, SHE,...

This paper presents some results from a numerical model of the wind and thermal climates, and the energy budgets, of city canyons. The model is capable of simulating spatial patterns of canyon energy budget components, subsurface and air temperature, and the components of the wind, as these are...

Cloud microphysical parameters, such as cloud droplet size (r), droplet number concentration (N<SUB align="right"><SMALL>d</SMALL></SUB>) and liquid water content (LWC), play an important role in the energy budgets of clouds, and thus the climate of the earth's atmosphere. The observations were collected during the North Atlantic...</small></sub>