farms.farms

Created on Fri June 1 2015 FAST Model Adapted from Yu Xie IDL Fast Radiative Transfer Model @author: Anthony Lopez

This Fast All-sky Radiation Model for Solar applications (FARMS) was developed by Yu Xie (Yu.Xie@nrel.gov). Please contact him for more information.

Literature

[1] Yu Xie, Manajit Sengupta, Jimy Dudhia, “A Fast All-sky Radiation Model

for Solar applications (FARMS): Algorithm and performance evaluation”, Solar Energy, Volume 135, 2016, Pages 435-445, ISSN 0038-092X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2016.06.003. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038092X16301827)

Functions

farms(tau, cloud_type, ...[, debug])	Fast All-sky Radiation Model for Solar applications (FARMS).
ice_phase(tau, De, solar_zenith_angle)	Get cloudy Tducld and Ruucld for the ice phase.
water_phase(tau, De, solar_zenith_angle)	Get cloudy Tducld and Ruucld for the water phase.