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General: Sol-air temperature - or some other measure?

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      CommentAuthorfostertom
    • CommentTimeMay 2nd 2008
     
    Trying to get a 'quick and dirty' idea of effective outdoor temperature, month by month, for Bristol, Plymouth or wherever. That is, an indicative figure combining pure air temp, receivable solar radiation, wind and rain cooling (I think that's all?), as experienced by the typical surfaces (various orientations) of a typical building, averaged over the days and nights of the month in question. Would that be sol-air temperature? Where would I find the figures?
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    Try this for Bristol: http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/BRISTOL_WEA_CENTER/37260.htm

    Doesn't have insolation data, but that can be found in other places. The link above has daily temperatures wind and rainfall figures.

    Paul in Montreal.
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      CommentAuthorfostertom
    • CommentTimeMay 2nd 2008
     
    Thanks

    Does that mean that approx combined measure isn't available, or not feasible?
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    Raw insolation figures can be easily calculated based on latitude; actual received insolation depends on cloud cover and the type of cloud and I'm not sure if any weather stations actually measure this or not. Sunshine hours are usually available, but this doesn't tell you the time of day the sun was received.

    Try this link for all things solar: http://www.builditsolar.com/References/references.htm And this Nasa link provides data for any location on earth based on satellite observations: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/sse/sse.cgi?na+s01#s01

    Paul in Montreal.
    • CommentAuthorEd Davies
    • CommentTimeMay 3rd 2008
     
    Plymouth university meteorological data archive might help:

    http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=9868

    It includes global solar radiation.

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