water (version 0.5)

incSWradiation: Calculates Incoming Solar Radiation

Description

This function calculates incoming solar radiation from surface model and solar angles.

Usage

incSWradiation(surface.model, solar.angles, WeatherStation)

Arguments

surface.model

rasterStack with DEM, Slope and Aspect. See surface.model()

solar.angles

rasterStack with latitude, declination, hour.angle, incidence.hor and incidence.rel. See solarAngles()

WeatherStation

Weather Station data

References

R. G. Allen, M. Tasumi, and R. Trezza, "Satellite-based energy balance for mapping evapotranspiration with internalized calibration (METRIC) - Model" Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, vol. 133, p. 380, 2007