Abstract

AbstractIn modelling solar radiation from surface weather observations, different approaches have been successful with marine and with land‐based data. We apply a simple model to a marine and a mid‐latitude continental station to illustrate systematic differences in the dependence of the insolation on solar elevation, cloud, and season. Relative to the continental station, the marine station has less insolation at low solar elevations, particularly in winter, but more insolation at high solar elevations. Two mechanisms are discussed to explain these differences.

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