... costs associated with facility design and construction. This paper describes the potential impacts on plant capacity resulting from cloud formation within or downwind of the solar chimney. Several proposed modifications to the basic concept of the solar chimney power facility have the potential to cause...

... illuminance ( G v ) to the extraterrestrial illuminance ( E v ) . Subsequent interpretations of the clear skies into high and low turbid types were conducted in conjunction with the cloud cover (CLD) and the luminous turbidity ( T v ) , and partly cloudy skies were further subdivided into thin and thick cloud...

... the degree of sky clearness. This paper presents the work on the identification of sky luminance patterns using three common climatic elements, namely cloud cover (CLD), sunshine hour (SH) and clearness index K t . Three sky types representing overcast, partly cloudy and clear were selected from the Kittler...

...C. H. Whitlock; D. E. Brown; W. S. Chandler; R. C. DiPasquale; Nancy A. Ritchey; Shashi K. Gupta; Anne C. Wilber; David P. Kratz; Paul W. Stackhouse Weather anomalies that increase clouds influence the reliability of both renewable energy and building environmental-control systems. Non-grid solar...

...T. Muneer; M. S. Gul; J. Kubie Sunshine fraction, cloud amount, temperature, and global irradiation are the most commonly measured meteorological parameters. In this article five models based mainly on the abovementioned variables for the determination of irradiation and illuminance components...