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FoleyLab / wptherml

A python package for modeling light-matter interactions!
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Radiation cooling power calculation #87

Open Hututu1001 opened 8 months ago

Hututu1001 commented 8 months ago

Does weather factor need to be considered in the calculation of radiation cooling power, such as cloud layer, atmospheric water vapor content, and so on?

FoleyLab commented 8 months ago

@Hututu1001 In reality, yes! This would effect the atmospheric transmissivity and therefore the P_atm component that goes into the computation of radiative cooling. Currently we use just one data set for atmospheric transmissivity; if you are aware of trusted resources that have this data for different conditions I would be interested!

Hututu1001 commented 8 months ago

In some studies, MODTRAN is often used to simulate atmospheric transmittance. This is a method of obtaining atmospheric transmittance using empirical formulas based on historical meteorological data and precipitable water. There is a link to the Matlab function wrapper for MODTRAN on my home page if you are interested. I don't have great programming skills, but I'd be happy to communicate about radiative cooling calculations.

FoleyLab commented 7 months ago

That would be great! I will pin this for now and plan to return to this in the summer. I will check out your MODTRAN wrapper and let you know if I have any questions!