Author(s): S. Ayyash and M. Rasas
Article publication date: 1988-12-01
Vol. 6 No. 3 (yearly), pp. 429-437.
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Keywords
air temperature, Kuwait, solar radiation
Abstract
A relationship between daily atmospheric transmittance and the daily range of air temperature was proposed for calculating incident solar radiation. The proposed formula has been applied to solar radiation and air temperature data of Kuwait. It is shown that the daily temperature difference accounts for 74-81% of the variation in daily solar radiation. It is also shown that the same solar radiation data set correlates equally well with temperatures recorded at weather stations having marked differences in the daily temperature range.