文档介绍：Modeling Solar Radiation at the Earth’s Surface
Viorel Badescu (Ed.)
Modeling Solar Radiation
at the Earth’s Surface
Recent Advances
Professor Viorel Badescu
Candida Oancea Institute
Polytechnic University of Bucharest
Spl. Independentei 313
Bucharest 060042
Romania
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Foreword
Reading the twenty chapters of this book caused me mixed reactions, though all
were positive. My responses were shaped by several factors. Although I have main-
tained a “watching brief” on the relevant literature, my last substantive writing on
these topics was a series of papers published in 1993 in Renewable -
pressed to see how far the field has progressed in just over a decade – and not only
in selected areas, but across all dimensions of solar radiation theory, measurement,
modelling and application.
I was also pleased to be reminded of the solid knowledge-base