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FIGURE 5.28
Angles involved in computa tion of lo cal solar incidence (adapted from Riano
et al. (2003)): θ
z
= solar zenith angle, φ
a
= solar azimuth, θ
p
= slope, φ
o
=
aspect, γ
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= local solar incidence ang le.
FIGURE 5.29
Cosine of solar incide nc e ang le γ
i
stretched across the DEM of Figure
5.24, solar zenith ...