The stability of the radiative regime in Bucharest during 2017-2018

Abstract

The paper presents an analysis of the solar irradiation and the stability of the solar radiative regime, available for Bucharest and the southern area of Romania. The study is based on meteorological data measured at 3.6 seconds, on several consecutive days of each season, in the years 2017 and 2018. Data acquisition was performed at Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest. The daily mean values for sunshine number and sunshine stability number are computed and analysed. The analyses carried out in this research are useful for applications of solar energy and conversion to thermal energy in hot air solar collectors to estimate the temperature variation at the collector air outlet as well as for photovoltaic panels to estimate the resulting electrical energy.