Spectral solar irradiance before and during a Harmattan dust spell

ZD Adeyefa, B Holmgren - Solar Energy, 1996 - Elsevier
Measurements of the ground-level spectral distributions of the direct, diffuse and global solar
irradiance between 300 and 1100 nm were made at Akure (7.15° N, 5.5° E), Nigeria, in …

Spectral solar irradiance under Harmattan conditions

ZD Adeyefa, B Holmgren, JA Adedokun - Renewable Energy, 1995 - Elsevier
Results of spectral solar radiation measurements at Ile-Ife (7°-30′ N, 4° 31′ E; South
Western Nigeria) for two non-consecutive months between December 1991 and February …

Spectral solar radiation measurements and turbidity: Comparative studies within a tropical and a sub-arctic environment

ZD Adeyefa, B Holmgren, JA Adedokun - Solar Energy, 1997 - Elsevier
The effects of atmospheric turbidity due to aerosols on the direct solar irradiance at the
surface at a low latitude (Ile-Ife (7° 30′ N, 4° 31′ E), south-western Nigeria) and a high …

Radiative characteristics of Saharan dust at solar wavelengths

TN Carlson, RS Caverly - Journal of geophysical Research, 1977 - Wiley Online Library
Solar radiation measurements made on Sal in the Cape Verde Islands during the 1974 Gate
project are analyzed in conjunction with aerosol size spectra data in order to describe the …

Spectral measurements of visible solar direct-normal irradiance and air pollutant attenuation coefficients at Helwan

MAM Shaltout, UA Rahoma, A Fathy - Renewable energy, 1996 - Elsevier
Solar radiation spectra were measured by a ground-level pyrheliometer (Eppley NIP)
equipped with a filter wheel. Three flat, circular, Schott filters were used to define three …

Correlation of diffuse solar radiation with air mass

MDC Doyle, AS Sambo - Solar & wind technology, 1988 - Elsevier
Measurements of total and diffuse components of solar radiation have been conducted
using pyranometers at Zaria (latitude 11° 06′ N, longitude 07° 41′ E and altitude of 653.9 …

Preliminary solar spectro-photometric measurements of aerosol optical density at Lagos, Nigeria

CO Oluwafemi - Atmospheric Environment (1967), 1979 - Elsevier
Solar spectrophotometric measurements of the aerosol optical density during the dry dusty
(Harmattan) season at two carefully selected sites around the Lagos metropolis are …

Extinction and sky brightness at two solar observatories

MJ Penn, H Lin, AM Schmidt, J Gerke, F Hill - Solar Physics, 2004 - Springer
Abstract The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope site survey Sky Brightness Monitor
simultaneously images the solar disk and the sky to about 8 solar radii in four wavelengths …

Solar radiation in dense Saharan aerosol in Northern Nigeria

AW Brinkman, J McGregor - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 1983 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements of normal incidence and global irradiance were made during the periods
November to December 1977 and November 1978 to February 1979. Aerosol density was …

The Diffuse Fraction of Global Solar Irradianceat a Tropical Location

MG Iziomon, TO Aro - Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 1998 - Springer
The annual and monthly mean diurnal variations of the diffuse fraction of global solar
irradiance arriving on the ground at a tropical station in Sub-Sahel Africa is here been …