A brief account is given of on‐going measurements of solar and long‐wave radiation fluxes over Ile‐Ife (7.29°N, 4.34°E), Nigeria. Pyrheliometric measurements of direct solar radiation using an Ångström compensation Pyrheliometer were initially made over the 1984/85, 1985/86, and 1986/87 harmattan seasons. Then followed the establishment, in 1992, of a solar radiation monitoring station, capable of carrying out continuous measurement of global and diffuse solar radiation using Kipp and Zonen pyranometers, along with the long‐wave (sky) radiation using a pyrgeometer and, the photometric flux, using a LICOR LI‐210SA photometric sensor. Spectral measurements of solar radiation made over 300–1100 nm region using a LICOR LI‐1800 spectroradiometer of 6 nm resolution are discussed along with the relevant applications. The measurement efforts constitute a step towards the building up of a climatological data bank capable of meeting solar energy utilization demands as well as providing inputs for Climate and planetary boundary layer models and satellite remote sensing applications.
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January 01 1995
Measurements of solar and long wave radiation over Ile‐Ife, Nigeria
J. A. Adedokun;
J. A. Adedokun
Department of Physics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile‐Ife, Nigeria
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Z. D. Adeyefa;
Z. D. Adeyefa
Department of Physics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile‐Ife, Nigeria
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E. Okogbue;
E. Okogbue
Department of Physics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile‐Ife, Nigeria
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B. Holmgren
B. Holmgren
Meteorological Institute, Uppsala University, S‐751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
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AIP Conf. Proc. 320, 179–190 (1995)
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J. A. Adedokun, Z. D. Adeyefa, E. Okogbue, B. Holmgren; Measurements of solar and long wave radiation over Ile‐Ife, Nigeria. AIP Conf. Proc. 1 January 1995; 320 (1): 179–190. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.47017
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