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2040:=48.2°. While the summertime AM number for mid-latitudes during the middle parts of the day is less than 1.5, higher figures apply in the morning and evening and at other times of the year. Therefore, AM1.5 is useful to represent the overall yearly average for mid-latitudes. The specific value of 1.5 has been selected in the 1970s for standardization purposes, based on an analysis of solar irradiance data in the conterminous United States. Since then, the solar industry has been using AM1.5 for all standardized testing or rating of terrestrial solar cells or modules, including those used in concentrating systems. The latest AM1.5 standards pertaining to photovoltaic applications are the ASTM G-173 and IEC 60904, all derived from simulations obtained with the 131:
direct path, giving the sun a yellow tinge. The greater the distance in the atmosphere through which the sunlight travels, the greater this effect, which is why the sun looks orange or red at dawn and sunset when the sunlight is travelling very obliquely through the atmosphere — progressively more of the blues and greens are removed from the direct rays, giving an orange or red appearance to the sun; and the sky appears pink — because the blues and greens are scattered over such long paths that they are highly attenuated before arriving at the observer, resulting in characteristic pink skies at dawn and sunset.
1882: 1297: 1877:{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\int _{0}^{\infty }\exp((-2x\cos z-(\sin z)^{2}x^{2}/r)/2)dx&=\exp((r\cot ^{2}z)/2)\int _{0}^{\infty }\exp(-({\sqrt {r}}\cot z+x\sin z/{\sqrt {r}})^{2}/2)dx\\&=-\exp(r(\cot z)^{2}/2){\frac {\sqrt {r\pi /2}}{\sin z}}{\text{ erfc}}(({\sqrt {r}}\cot z+x\sin z/{\sqrt {r}})/{\sqrt {2}}){\Bigg |}_{x}^{\infty }\\&=\exp(r(\cot z)^{2}/2){\frac {\sqrt {r\pi /2}}{\sin z}}{\text{ erfc}}\left({\sqrt {r/2}}\cot z\right)\\\end{aligned}}} 84: 294: 100: 2107:=70°) is a useful range for estimating the overall average performance of solar cells installed at high latitudes such as in northern Europe. Similarly AM2 to AM3 is useful to estimate wintertime performance in temperate latitudes, e.g. airmass coefficient is greater than 2 at all hours of the day in winter at latitudes as low as 37°. 3159:, per unit of sunlight energy is greater than in space. This means that solar cells are more efficient at AM1 than AM0. This apparently counter-intuitive result arises simply because silicon cells can't make much use of the high energy radiation which the atmosphere filters out. As illustrated below, even though the 2012:
Solar panels do not generally operate under exactly one atmosphere's thickness: if the sun is at an angle to the Earth's surface the effective thickness will be greater. Many of the world's major population centres, and hence solar installations and industry, across Europe, China, Japan, the United
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Atmospheric scattering plays a role in removing higher frequencies from direct sunlight and scattering it about the sky. This is why the sky appears blue and the sun yellow — more of the higher-frequency blue light arrives at the observer via indirect scattered paths; and less blue light follows the
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Solar intensity at the collector reduces with increasing airmass coefficient, but due to the complex and variable atmospheric factors involved, not in a simple or linear fashion. For example, almost all high energy radiation is removed in the upper atmosphere (between AM0 and AM1) and so AM2 is not
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As the sunlight travels through the atmosphere, chemicals interact with the sunlight and absorb certain wavelengths changing the amount of short-wavelength light reaching the Earth's surface. A more active component of this process is water vapor, which results in a wide variety of absorption bands
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are suitable for use only to altitudes of a few kilometres above sea level, implying as they do reduction to AM0 performance levels at only around 6 and 9 km respectively. By contrast much of the attenuation of the high energy components occurs in the ozone layer - at higher altitudes around
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region, it is possible to use a lower absolute AM numbers than for the corresponding latitude at sea level: AM numbers less than 1 towards the equator, and correspondingly lower numbers than listed above for other latitudes. However, this approach is approximate and not recommended. It is best to
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These simple models assume that for these purposes the atmosphere can be considered to be effectively concentrated into around the bottom 9 km, i.e. essentially all the atmospheric effects are due to the atmospheric mass in the lower half of the
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air mass, equal to the relative air mass multiplied by the local atmospheric pressure and divided by the standard (sea-level) pressure, decreases with elevation above sea level. For solar panels installed at high altitudes, e.g. in an
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The earth's atmosphere absorbs a considerable amount of the ultraviolet light. The resulting spectrum at the Earth's surface has fewer photons, but they are of lower energy on average, so the number of photons, above the
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at many wavelengths, while molecular nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide add to this process. By the time it reaches the Earth's surface, the spectrum is strongly confined between the far infrared and near ultraviolet.
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The air mass number is thus dependent on the Sun's elevation path through the sky and therefore varies with time of day and with the passing seasons of the year, and with the latitude of the observer.
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The ASTM G-173 standard measures solar intensity under "rural aerosol loading" i.e. clean air conditions - thus the standard value fits closely to the maximum of the expected range.
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is the distance along the light ray from where it meets the ground, divided by the equivalent thickness of the atmosphere (approximately 9 km), then the height of a point is:
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under standardized conditions, and is often referred to using the syntax "AM" followed by a number. "AM1.5" is almost universal when characterizing terrestrial power-generating
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up to around 75°. A number of refinements have been proposed to more accurately model the path thickness towards the horizon, such as that proposed by Kasten and Young (1989):
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The spectrum after travelling through the atmosphere to sea level with the sun directly overhead is referred to, by definition, as "AM1". This means "one atmosphere". AM1 (
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This illustrates the more general point that given that solar energy is "free", and where available space is not a limitation, other factors such as total output power
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The above approximation overlooks the atmosphere's finite height, and predicts an infinite air mass at the horizon. However, it is reasonably accurate for values of
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This illustrates that significant power is available at only a few degrees above the horizon. For example, when the sun is more than about 60° above the horizon (
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twice as bad as AM1. Furthermore, there is great variability in many of the factors contributing to atmospheric attenuation, such as water vapor, aerosols,
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The spectrum outside the atmosphere is referred to as "AM0", meaning "zero atmospheres". Solar cells used for space power applications, like those on
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Atmospheric effects on optical transmission can be modelled as if the atmosphere is concentrated in approximately the lower 9 km.
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temperature, of the Sun (5777 K) is the temperature a black body of the same size must have to yield the same total emissive power.
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of blue — yellow is the aggregate color of what remains after scattering removes some blue from the "white" light from the sun.
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This article is about practical application in the solar energy industry. For more comprehensive theoretical treatment, see
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air mass is only a function of the sun's zenith angle, and therefore does not change with local elevation. Conversely, the
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One approximate model for intensity increase with altitude and accurate to a few kilometres above sea level is given by:
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Gueymard, C.; Myers, D.; Emery, K. (2002). "Proposed reference irradiance spectra for solar energy systems testing".
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30 km. Hence these approximations are suitable only for estimating the performance of ground-based collectors.
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radiator of the same size at about 5,800 K. As it passes through the atmosphere, sunlight is attenuated by
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for average, polluted or clean air respectively) can be used to estimate intensity from AM in the normal way.
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Schoenberg, E. (1929). Theoretische Photometrie, g) Über die Extinktion des Lichtes in der Erdatmosphäre. In
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per unit of invested money (e.g. per dollar), are often more important considerations than efficiency (
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latitudes. An AM number representing the spectrum at mid-latitudes is therefore much more common.
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States of America and elsewhere (including northern India, southern Africa and Australia) lie in
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This formula fits comfortably within the mid-range of the expected pollution-based variability:
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Planning and installing photovoltaic systems: a guide for installers, architects and engineers
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Modelling the atmosphere as a simple spherical shell provides a reasonable approximation:
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where the normalized heights of the atmosphere and of the collector are respectively
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as shown in the above table), whereas when the sun is only 15° above the horizon (
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One empirical approximation model for solar intensity versus airmass is given by:
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One can also assume that the air density falls off exponentially with height. If
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The measurement of solar spectral irradiance at different terrestrial elevations
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The ASTM G-173 standard measures solar intensity over the band 280 to 4000 
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simulate the actual spectrum based on the relative air mass (e.g., 1.5) and the
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reference uses 1367 W/m as the solar intensity external to the atmosphere.
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atmospheric conditions for the specific elevation of the site under scrutiny.
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AM38 is generally regarded as being the airmass in the horizontal direction (
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The air mass coefficient is commonly used to characterize the performance of
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reports values in the range 8 to 10 km for different atmospheric models
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relative to the normal to the Earth's surface, the air mass coefficient is:
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Alternatively, given the significant practical variabilities involved, the
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A more comprehensive list of such models is provided in the main article
3868:{\displaystyle I=1.1\times I_{\mathrm {o} }\times 0.76^{(AM^{0.618})}\,} 3774:{\displaystyle I=1.1\times I_{\mathrm {o} }\times 0.56^{(AM^{0.715})}\,} 3514: 3488: 3156: 2832: 2258:{\displaystyle I=1.1\times I_{\mathrm {o} }\times 0.7^{(AM^{0.678})}\,} 509: 3491:
reports values in the range 36 to 40 for different atmospheric models
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retrieved 27 April 2011 "Effective Temperature ... 5777 K"
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through the atmosphere, and solar radiation incident at angle
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retrieved 1 May 2011, Stuart Bowden and Christiana Honsberg,
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The overall intensity of solar radiation is like that of a
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is the solar collector's height above sea level in km and
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Revised optical air mass tables and approximation formula
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where solar intensity external to the Earth's atmosphere
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Solar irradiance spectrum above atmosphere and at surface
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And then the above table or the appropriate equation (
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A first-order approximation for air mass is given by
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Kluwer Academic Publishers. 3602:, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sonnenenergie. 3629:Solar Power Labs, Arizona State University 3620: 3618: 3616: 3504:. Band II, erste Hälfte. Berlin: Springer. 2944: 2940: 2828:the collector was installed at sea level. 850: 846: 604: 600: 3864: 3853: 3842: 3828: 3827: 3809: 3770: 3759: 3748: 3734: 3733: 3715: 3080: 3079: 3070: 3059: 3031: 3030: 3021: 3014: 3013: 3001: 2969: 2884: 2874: 2856: 2845: 2800: 2780: 2748: 2737: 2720: 2706: 2691: 2666: 2665: 2647: 2614: 2588: 2346: 2322: 2293: 2292: 2286: 2254: 2243: 2232: 2218: 2217: 2199: 2122: 2092: 2072: 2025: 1979: 1959: 1942:, are generally characterized using AM0. 1894: 1892: 1846: 1841: 1831: 1809: 1800: 1789: 1783: 1739: 1734: 1728: 1727: 1716: 1711: 1701: 1696: 1665: 1654: 1632: 1623: 1612: 1606: 1548: 1542: 1531: 1526: 1495: 1474: 1469: 1454: 1439: 1396: 1385: 1379: 1369: 1314: 1309: 1301: 1299: 1261: 1255: 1245: 1197: 1163: 1142: 1140: 1094: 929: 902: 895: 886: 884: 823: 802: 785: 774: 743: 742: 733: 726: 725: 713: 685: 684: 678: 656: 655: 649: 617: 577: 556: 545: 517: 481: 469: 452: 442: 433: 422: 397: 370: 338: 331: 322: 311: 278:(i.e., normal to the Earth's surface) at 257: 256: 250: 210: 209: 200: 189: 164: 144: 3639:Meinel, A. B. and Meinel, M. P. (1976). 3176: 2835:could be applied to estimate AM, using: 2315: 918: 708: ≈ 9 km, and their ratio 3572: 3570: 3391: 906:{\displaystyle {\frac {1}{\cos \,z}}\,} 3483: 3481: 3096:{\displaystyle c=h/y_{\mathrm {atm} }} 3178:Output power vs. airmass coefficient 64:has traveled through the atmosphere. 7: 3801: 3707: 3467:Kasten, F. and Young, A. T. (1989). 2837: 2639: 2191: 2138: 537: 414: 303: 181: 27:A term in the solar energy industry 3829: 3735: 3087: 3084: 3081: 3038: 3035: 3032: 3015: 2667: 2489: 2486: 2481: 2478: 2475: 2294: 2219: 1740: 1475: 1315: 1096: 750: 747: 744: 727: 701:{\displaystyle y_{\mathrm {atm} }} 692: 689: 686: 657: 258: 211: 25: 2317:Solar intensity vs. zenith angle 3926:Astronomical photometry: a guide 3054: ≈ 708 (as above) and 2303:{\displaystyle I_{\mathrm {o} }} 666:{\displaystyle R_{\mathrm {E} }} 267:{\displaystyle L_{\mathrm {o} }} 3859: 3843: 3765: 3749: 3687:Interpolated from data in the 2957: 2945: 2935: 2923: 2920: 2899: 2871: 2858: 2745: 2726: 2717: 2707: 2699: 2679: 2676: 2249: 2233: 1797: 1780: 1767: 1761: 1723: 1708: 1662: 1659: 1620: 1603: 1590: 1584: 1556: 1539: 1492: 1486: 1462: 1451: 1429: 1426: 1404: 1393: 1366: 1353: 1329: 1326: 1275: 1266: 1242: 1229: 1194: 1172: 1160: 1144: 820: 804: 644:where the radius of the Earth 574: 558: 466: 453: 1: 3697: 3643:Addison Wesley Publishing Co. 3594:, 2nd Ed. 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Index

Air mass coefficient
Air mass (astronomy)
AMO
optical path length
Earth's atmosphere
zenith
solar radiation
solar cells
panels

effective temperature
black body

black body
scattering
absorption
attenuation
zenith
sea level

zenith angle
Airmass
A.1
A.2
A.3
Troposphere
complementary error function
Levelling
barometric formula
communications satellites

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