<p> The effect of clouds on the performance of the McMaster Solar
Radiation Model was analyzed using global irradiance data from five
Australian stations for the period 1978 to 1982. Ten cloud types were
examined. Using values of RMSE and MBE, the model was found to perform
well in 15 of the 24 years of analyzed data. The results, on average,
parallel those found in previous Canadian studies. The dominance of low
layer clouds coincided with all years displaying bad performance but a l so
for some years displaying good performance. The analysis of specific
cloud effects revealed that the model underestimates in the presence o f
low layer clouds, is not well represented with middle layer clouds and
overestimates with high layer clouds. These cloud effects can be used to
explain some of the error found in the model's performance, much of
the error present is random and cannot be explained by the effects of
clouds. </p> / Thesis / Bachelor of Arts (BA)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/19564 |
| Date | 04 1900 |
| Creators | Fabbri, Deanna |
| Contributors | Davies, J. A., Geography |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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