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Study of the MLB parameterisation for change in surface solar irradiance with sun zenith angle in clear sky

Zhipeng Qu
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Philippe Blanc
Mireille Lefèvre
Lucien Wald

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The MLB parameterisation (Modified Lambert-Beer, Mueller et al., 2004) describes the change in SSI with sun zenith angle (SZA) in clear-sky conditions. It applies to the direct and global SSI as well as their spectral distribution. We assess its performances by comparing its results to the outputs of the radiative transfer model libRadtran and standard interpolation procedures. The standard two-point fitting MLB function performs very well at SZA between 0° and 60° and fairly bad from 60° to 89.9°. A parameterisation made of four MLBs for four intervals (0°, 60°), (60°, 75°), (75°, 85°) and (85°, 89.9°) is also tested. This piecewise MLB parameterisation exhibits satisfactory performances at any SZA and outperforms standard linear interpolation techniques. 95 % of errors in global SSI are less than 1 W m−2 for each band and less than 5 W m−2 for total irradiance.
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hal-00620191 , version 1 (07-09-2011)

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Zhipeng Qu, Philippe Blanc, Mireille Lefèvre, Lucien Wald, Armel Oumbe. Study of the MLB parameterisation for change in surface solar irradiance with sun zenith angle in clear sky. Advances in Science and Research, 2011, 6, pp.233-236. ⟨10.5194/asr-6-233-2011⟩. ⟨hal-00620191⟩
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