A new point of view on the relationship between global solar irradiation and sunshine quantifiers

摘要

The relationship between the clearness index and the time averaged sunshine number is studied over short time intervals such as one hour. Several non-linear statistical models have been used. Meteorological and radiometric data from various weather stations of Romania (South-Eastern Europe) are analyzed. Nonlinearity of the relationship is only apparent near the boundary for relative sunshine sigma of 0 or 1 and manifests itself in clearness index jumps mainly at sigma = 0 rather than sigma = 1. The negative clearness index jump at sigma = 0 decreases while the slope of the relationship increases when the sunshine number is averaged over longer time periods. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.