Abstract
The widely-used short-wave radiation formula of Budyko (1974) underestimates the measured solar radiation at Ocean Weather Stations (OWS) A, I, J, K and P by as much as 30%, with the largest errors occurring at times of high cloud amount.
Several models of hourly solar radiation as a function of solar elevation, cloud type and cloud amount were evaluated on an hourly, daily, monthly and long-term mean basis in comparison with a model using cloud amount but not cloud type; we find that the cloud type in?formation does not so far improve our ability to model OWS solar radiation.
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Dobson, F.W., Smith, S.D. (1985). Estimation of Solar Radiation at Sea. In: Toba, Y., Mitsuyasu, H. (eds) The Ocean Surface. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7717-5_70
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