| Sector | Agriculture, Green infrastructure, energy | ||||||
| Description | Solar insolation (shortwave) is the amount of energy received at the surface from sunlight (W m-2) from both direct and diffuse shortwave radiation on a flat, horizontal surface at mean roof level. | ||||||
| End User | Building engineers, architects, urban planners, solar energy sector | ||||||
| Calculation method | ID | Title | Period | Statistical processing | Unit | Threshold | Comment |
| shortvawe | Shortvawe solar insolation | Average monthly values for modelling period | Average monthly total energy | MJ m-2 month-1 | |||
| Provenance | Drought is based on temperature computed by the HARMONIE model. | ||||||
| Validation | The simulations made by HARMONIE-AROME in Urban SIS has been validated against observations in Urban SIS deliverable 5.1, where an overview is given in Table 4. | ||||||
| Calculation caveats |
Spatial representation: S1, S4 |
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| Motivation | Important variable for plant and agricultural health and performance and building energy applications (e.g. solar energy resource potential, influencing energy demand for buildings). | ||||||
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| References |
Lindberg F et al. 2015: Solar energy on building envelopes–3D modelling in a 2D environment. Solar Energy 115, 369-378. Loutzenhiser PG et al. 2007: Empirical validation of models to compute solar irradiance on inclined surfaces for building energy simulation. Solar Energy 81:2, 254-267. |
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