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Solar radiation data is important for a wide range of applications, e.g. in engineering, agriculture, health sector, and in many fields of the natural sciences. A few examples showing the diversity of applications may include: architecture and building design, e.g. air conditioning and cooling systems; solar heating system design and use; solar power generation; evaporation and irrigation; calculation of water requirements for crops; monitoring plant growth and disease control; skin cancer research.

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Solar Radiation Measurement: Progress in Radiometry for Improved Modeling.- Fractal Classification of Typical Meteorological Days from Global Solar Irradiance: Application to Five Sites of Different Climates.- Modelling the Statistical Properties of Solar Radiation and Proposal of a Technique Based on Boltzmann Statistics.- A Method for Determining the Solar Global and Defining the Diffuse and Beam Irradiation on a Clear Day.- Recent Advances in the Relations between Bright Sunshine Hours and Solar Irradiation.- Solar Irradiation Estimation Methods from Sunshine and Cloud Cover Data.- Solar Irradiation via Air Temperature Data.- Models of Diffuse Solar Fraction.- Estimation of Surface Solar Radiation with Artificial Neural Networks.- Dynamic Behavior of Solar Radiation.- Time Series Modelling of Solar Radiation.- A new Procedure to Generate Solar Radiation Time Series from achine Learning Theory.- Use of Sunshine Number for Solar Irradiance Time Series Generation.- The Meteorological Radiation Model (MRM): Advancements and Applications.- Chain of Algorithms to Compute Hourly Radiation Data on Inclined Planes used in Meteonorm.- Modelling UV-B Irradiance in Canada.- Angular Distribution of Sky Diffuse Radiance and Luminance.- Solar Radiation Derived from Satellite Images.- Generation of Solar Radiation Maps from Long-Term Satellite Data.- Validation and Ranking Methodologies for Solar Radiation Models.

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