Eighteen radiation-based equations used to estimate reference evapotranspiration (ET<Subscript>ref</Subscript>) were generalized into seven linear models. The general models were calibrated using the standard FAO-56 Penman-Monteith method. Model performance was evaluated under humid, sub-humid and semi-arid...</subscript>

Snowmelt hydrology is an important part of hydrological analyses where significant proportion of precipitation is expected to fall in a snow form. Many models have long been introduced to enable the simulation of snowmelt processes in the watershed ranging from simple temperature based equations...

The increasingly widespread use of CSP (concentrated solar power) plants to produce electricity has generated a constant search to improve and optimize final production. These plants are looking for new technologies and methodologies that offer significant, reliable strategies which can be...

Based on the linear relationship between solar radiation and sunshine duration, the Angstrom model is widely used to estimate solar radiation from routinely observed meteorological variables for energy exploitation. However, the relationship may have changed in quickly developing regions in the...

The accurate determination of the atmospheric turbidity is of great importance for atmospheric environment, solar energy applications and climate change studies. Daily values of horizontal direct, diffuse and global solar radiation at Wuhan, Central China during 1961–2010 are used for...

This paper studies the impact of weather variation on energy use by using 5-minutes interval weather–energy data obtained from two residential houses: house 1 is a conventional house with advanced efficiency features and house 2 is a net-zero solar house with relatively more advanced...

This paper aims at introducing a novel methodology to calculate the distribution of incoming solar energy on the internal surfaces of closed spaces with an opening at various orientations and placements. While the incoming diffuse solar radiation and the reflected solar radiation are as usually...