Date of Award:
5-1967
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department name when degree awarded
Agricultural and Irrigation Engineering
Committee Chair(s)
Jerald E. Christiansen
Committee
Jerald E. Christiansen
Committee
Jack Keller
Abstract
Average monthly values of incoming radiation, extraterrestrial radiation, sunshine, and sky cover frorn 32 climatological stations in the United States were used as a basis to develop radiation equations.
Empirical relations between incoming radiation and more commonly available climatic and geographic variables, such as percent of relative sunshine, mean daily sky cover, station elevation and extraterrestrial radiation, were established using an empirical procedure used by Christiansen (1966, 1967) to compute his evaporation and evapotranspiration formulas.
The reliability of the equations developed was deternlined by comparing the computed values of incoming radiation with measured values at Davis, California and for the Republic of Venezuela (Servicio de Meteorologia, 1965).
For comparison, the formulas developed in this study and formulas developed by Fitzpatrick (1965), Black (1954), Glover and McCulloch (cited by Fitzpatrick, 1965) Morton (1965), and Bennett (1965) were applied to Venezuelan incoming solar radiation stations.
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Recommended Citation
Pizarro, Rodrigo H., "Estimation of Incoming Radiation From Extraterrestrial Radiation and Climatic Data" (1967). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 1607.
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