Title: Estimation of atmospheric precipitable water over Australia for application to the division of solar radiation into its direct and diffuse components
Abstract: Monthly-mean atmospheric precipitable water data for twenty six stations in continental Australia and neighboring islands have been analyzed to develop relations for estimating precipitable water at sites where it has not been measured. Monthly-mean precipitable water can be estimated for a site with an rms error of about 14%, using the monthly mean surface temperature and relative humidity. This rms error can be reduced to about 9% by using the systematic deviations of the estimated precipitable water from the measured precipitable water for stations in the region about the site where an estimate is to be made, to adjust the precipitable water estimate. The amount of sunlight scattered by the atmosphere is a function of the amount of precipitable water and other quantities.
Publication Year: 1992
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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