Maps of solar erythemal ultraviolet (EUV) irradiance daily doses were created for every month with a horizontal resolution of 500 m at the geographical domain 47.15 N–49.86 N×16.94 E–22.81 E covering the territory of Slovakia. The cloud modification factor for the EUV radiation (cmfUV ) was modeled utilizing the relation between the cloud modification factor of global and EUV radiation. The map...

For remote sensing of the Earth in the ultraviolet (UV), visible (VIS) and short-wave infrared (SWIR), the extraterrestrial solar spectral irradiance (Esun (λ)) has to be known with high accuracy. However, the discrepancy in currently available zero air mass Esun (λ) data is large due to two sources of uncertainties: the variation of the solar activity and uncertainties in the experimental data...

For the first time a record of total solar irradiance covering 9300 years is presented, which covers almost the entire Holocene. This reconstruction is based on a recently observationally derived relationship between total solar irradiance and the open solar magnetic field. Here we show that the open solar magnetic field can be obtained from the cosmogenic radionuclide Be measured in ice cores....

Separating global horizontal irradiance measurements into direct and diffuse components has been vigorously discussed over the past half-century of solar radiation research leading to the creation of many models which attempt to compute these components with varying degrees of success. However, over the course of this discussion, nearly all studies have focused on hourly values, with no studies...

Solar energy is expected to contribute major shares of the future global energy supply. Due to its fluctuating nature an efficient use will require reliable forecast information of its availability in various time and spatial scales depending on the application. The current status of forecasting solar irradiance for energy generation purposes is briefly reviewed with respect to very short-term ...

Solar energy is expected to contribute major shares of the future global energy supply. Due to its fluctuating nature an efficient use will require reliable forecast information of its availability in various time and spatial scales depending on the application. The current status of forecasting solar irradiance for energy generation purposes is briefly reviewed with respect to very short-term ...

TheCORONAS satellite, launched on 1994March 2, carried theDIFOS experiment to observe irradiance fluctuations due to global solar oscillations. The DIFOS experiment was working for almost 50 days near solar activity minimum. We present first results of the Fourier analysis of the full time series. The fine structure of the low-l p-modes is shown and fitted with Lorentzian line profiles. Results...

Through reduction of a huge data set spanning 2010-2017, we compare mean global changes in temperature, emission measure (EM), and underlying photospheric magnetic field of the solar corona over most of the last activity cycle. The quiet coronal mean temperature rises from 1.4 to 1.8 MK, whereas EM increases by almost a factor of 50% from solar minimum to maximum. An increased high-temperature ...

Solar irradiance is the main external driver of the Earth’s climate. Whereas the 3 total solar irradiance is the main source of energy input into the climate system, solar UV ir4 radiance exerts control over chemical and physical processes in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. 5 The time series of accurate irradiance measurements are, however, relatively short and limit 6 the assessment of the solar...

The UV-A and visible solar irradiance spectrum: inter-comparison of absolutely calibrated, spectrally medium resolution solar irradiance spectra from balloonand satellite-borne measurements W. Gurlit, H. Bösch , H. Bovensmann, J. P. Burrows, A. Butz, C. Camy-Peyret, M. Dorf, K. Gerilowski, A. Lindner, S. Noël, U. Platt, F. Weidner, and K. Pfeilsticker Institut für Umweltphysik und Fernerkundung...