rsaga.pisr: Potential incoming solar radiation

Description

This function calculates the potential incoming solar radiation in an area using different atmospheric models; module available in SAGA GIS 2.0.6+.

Usage

rsaga.pisr(in.dem, in.svf.grid = NULL, in.vapour.grid = NULL, in.latitude.grid = NULL, in.longitude.grid = NULL, out.direct.grid, out.diffuse.grid, out.total.grid = NULL, out.ratio.grid = NULL, out.duration, out.sunrise, out.sunset, local.svf = TRUE, latitude, unit = c("kWh/m2", "kJ/m2", "J/cm2"), solconst = 1367, enable.bending = FALSE, bending.radius = 6366737.96, bending.lat.offset = "user", bending.lat.ref.user = 0, bending.lon.offset = "center", bending.lon.ref.user = 0, method = c("height", "components", "lumped"), hgt.atmosphere = 12000, hgt.water.vapour.pressure = 10, cmp.pressure = 1013, cmp.water.content = 1.68, cmp.dust = 100, lmp.transmittance = 70, time.range = c(0, 24), time.step = 0.5, start.date = list(day = 21, month = 3), end.date = NULL, day.step = 5, env = rsaga.env(), ...)

Arguments

in.dem

name of input digital elevation model (DEM) grid in SAGA grid format (default extension: .sgrd)

in.svf.grid

Optional input grid in SAGA format: Sky View Factor; see also local.svf

in.vapour.grid

Optional input grid in SAGA format: Water vapour pressure (mbar); see also argument hgt.water.vapour.pressure

in.latitude.grid

Optional input grid in SAGA format: Latitude (degree) of each grid cell

in.longitude.grid

see in.latitude.grid

out.direct.grid

Output grid: Direct insolation (unit selected by unit argument)

out.diffuse.grid

Output grid: Diffuse insolation

out.total.grid

Optional output grid: Total insolation, i.e. sum of direct and diffuse incoming solar radiation

out.ratio.grid

Optional output grid: Direct to diffuse ratio

out.duration

Optional output grid: Duration of insolation

out.sunrise

Optional output grid: time of sunrise; only calculated if time span is set to single day

out.sunset

Time of sunset; see out.sunrise

local.svf

logical (default: TRUE; if TRUE, use sky view factor based on local slope (after Oke, 1988), if no sky view factor grid is provided in in.svf.grid

latitude

Geographical latitude in degree North (negative values indicate southern hemisphere)

unit

unit of insolation output grids: "kWh/m2" (default) "kJ/m2", or "J/cm2"

solconst

solar constant, defaults to 1367 W/m2

enable.bending

logical (default: FALSE): incorporate effects of planetary bending?

bending.radius

Planetary radius, default 6366737.96

bending.lat.offset

if bending is enabled: latitudinal reference is "user"-defined (default), or relative to "top", "center" or "bottom" of grid?

bending.lat.ref.user

user-defined lat. reference for bending, see bending.lat.offset

bending.lon.offset

longitudinal reference, i.e. local time, is "user"-defined, or relative to "top", "center" (default) or "bottom" of grid?

bending.lon.ref.user

user-defined reference for local time (Details??)

method

specifies how the atmospheric components should be accounted for: either based on the height of atmosphere and vapour pressure ("height", or numeric code 0), or air pressure, water and dust content ("components", code 1), or lumped atmospheric transmittance ("lumped", code 0)

hgt.atmosphere

Height of atmosphere (in m); default 12000 m

hgt.water.vapour.pressure

Water vapour pressure in mbar (default 10 mbar); This value is used if no vapour pressure grid is given in argument in.vapour.grid

cmp.pressure

atmospheric pressure in mbar, defaults to 1013 mbar

cmp.water.content

water content of a vertical slice of the atmosphere in cm: between 1.5 and 1.7cm, average 1.68cm (default)

cmp.dust

dust factor in ppm; defaults to 100 ppm

lmp.transmittance

transmittance of the atmosphere in percent; usually between 60 (humid areas) and 80 percent (deserts)

time.range

numeric vector of length 2: time span (hours of the day) for numerical integration

time.step

time step in hours for numerical integration

start.date

list of length two, giving the start date in day and month components as numbers; these numbers are one-based (SAGA_CMD uses zero-based numbers internally), i.e. Jan. 1st is list(day=1,month=1)

end.date

see start.date

day.step

if days indicates a range of days, this specifies the time step (number of days) for calculating the incoming solar radiation

env

RSAGA geoprocessing environment obtained with rsaga.env; this argument is required for version control (see Note)

...

optional arguments to be passed to rsaga.geoprocessor

Details

According to SAGA GIS 2.0.7 documentation, "Most options should do well, but TAPES-G based diffuse irradiance calculation ("Atmospheric Effects" methods 2 and 3) needs further revision!" I.e. be careful with method = "components" and method = "lumped".

References

Boehner, J., Antonic, O. (2009): Land surface parameters specific to topo-climatology. In: Hengl, T. and Reuter, H. I. (eds.): Geomorphometry - Concepts, Software, Applications. Elsevier.

Oke, T.R. (1988): Boundary layer climates. London, Taylor and Francis.

Wilson, J.P., Gallant, J.C. (eds.), 2000: Terrain analysis - principles and applications. New York, John Wiley and Sons.

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