Solar diffuse radiation data including global radiation, shortwave and longwave balances, net radiation and sunshine hours have been extensively analyzed to study the variation of diffuse radiation with turbidity and cloud discharges appearing in the form of atmospherics over the tropics. Results of surface radiation measurements at Calcutta, Poona, Delhi and Madras are presented together with ...

A simplified equation to estimate spatial reference evapotranspiration (ETo_Ts) from remote sensing-based surface temperature (Ts) and local standard meteorological data is suggested. It is based on a parameterization of the meteorological conditions of the first few meters of the atmosphere through two parameters (a and b) which come from a simpler form of the Penman–Monteith equation: