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The document provides calculations to solve three examples related to solar flux on November 15 in Boulder, Colorado: 1) Calculate the solar zenith angle in Boulder at 3:00 pm, which is found to be 72.7 degrees. 2) Calculate the day length in Boulder, which is found to be 9.7 hours. 3) Calculate the daily averaged top-of-atmosphere solar flux in Boulder, which is found to be 186 W/m2.

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Examples 13

The document provides calculations to solve three examples related to solar flux on November 15 in Boulder, Colorado: 1) Calculate the solar zenith angle in Boulder at 3:00 pm, which is found to be 72.7 degrees. 2) Calculate the day length in Boulder, which is found to be 9.7 hours. 3) Calculate the daily averaged top-of-atmosphere solar flux in Boulder, which is found to be 186 W/m2.

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Week 13

1. Calculate the solar zenith angle in Boulder at 3:00 pm on November 15. The solar zenith angle is found from cos 0 = sin sin + cos cos cos h where is the latitude, is the solar declination, and h is the hour angle. The solar declination is found from sin = sin sin where is the longitude of the Earth from the vernal equinox. Well assume the orbit is close enough to circular that we can use the linear in time approximation: tv = 360 T where tv is the time from the vernal equinox and T is the length of the year. November 15 is about 240 days since the vernal equinox, so = 360(240/365.24) = 236.6 The Earths tilt is = 23.5, so the solar declination on November 15 is sin = sin(23.5) sin(236.6) = 0.3327 = 19.4

The latitude of Boulder is = 40. Well assume the longitude is 105 (center of the time zone) so that the hour angle is h = 360(3 hr/24 hr) = 45. Therefore, the solar zenith angle is cos 0 = sin(40) sin(19.4)+cos(40) cos(19.4) cos(45) = 0.297 2. Calculate the day length in Boulder on November 15. To nd the day length we use the solar declination and the latitude: cos H = tan tan = (0.839)(0.353) = 0.296 H = 1.27rad = 72.8. Day length is (24 hr)H/180 = 9.7 hrs 0 = 72.7

3. Calculate the daily averaged TOA solar ux on November 15 in Boulder. November 15 is 49 days before perihelion, so the true anomaly is approximately 360(49/365.24) = 48.3 The ratio of the Earth-Sun distance to the mean distance is then r 1 e cos = 1 (0.017)(0.665) = 0.989 r0 The daily averaged solar ux is S0 r0 F = r
2

(H sin sin + sin H cos cos )

Need H = 1.27 in radians (but be careful with sin H) F = S0/ r0 r


2

[1.27 sin 40 sin(19.4) + sin 72.8 cos 40 cos(19.4)]

F = S0(0.989)2(0.272 + 0.690)/ = S0 (1.022)(.133) F = (1366 W/m2)(0.136) = 186 W/m2

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