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[EnergyPlus_Support] Re: Extraterrestrial Horizontal Radiation Calculation



I'm talking about Extraterrestrial Horizontal Radiation, not Horizontal IR from Sky. The calculation of Horizontal IR from Sky is well documented...

Extraterrestrial Horizontal Radiation should not be a measured value. I'm wondering how the values in the weather file coming from... 

-B

--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Linda Lawrie <linda@...> wrote:
>
> EnergyPlus does not calculate nor does it use Extraterrestrial 
> Horizontal Radiation -- whatever is being reported is coming directly 
> from the weather files, if reported at all.
> 
> Are you talking about Horizontal IR from Sky?  The details of the 
> calculation, I believe, are in the Auxiliary Programs document as of 
> V4 release.
> 
> At 08:02 AM 12/28/2009, Bing Dong wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm wondering how E+ calculate hourly Extraterrestrial Horizontal Radiation.
> >
> >My calcualtion is based on "Duffie, J. A. and Beckman, W. A. 1991. 
> >Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes, 2nd edn. J. Wiley and Sons, New York".
> >
> >I compared with the values in weather file and I found there is some 
> >differences (around 10%~20%).
>




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