ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the equipment and methods of measurements for solar radiation components and the issues of data quality. It is the modeling of solar irradiance under clear sky irradiance (transmittance) and general sky conditions, respectively. The book introduces the concept of a linear combination (products) of atmospheric constituents. It outlines the most popular empirically derived transmittance functions. The book describes the modeling of the distribution of solar power with wavelength or solar spectral power distributions. These models are critical in evaluating the performance, and performance variations, in photovoltaic conversion technologies that have finite and sometimes limited wavelength regimes for their spectral response. The book discusses that the spectral distribution of sunlight, as well as artificial source for lighting, also have an impact on human visual response.
