Diffuse Solar Radiation Modeling

This book introduces an updated review of the studies and researches carried out about the modeling approaches and techniques for calculating the diffuse solar radiation. The author has taken care to classify, justify and test the presented models. The final product of this book is to form a reasonable imagination about the future work of the field, since it is very important in many applications needed in our life such as solar energy utilization, weather forecast and pollution problems. It can be also considered as a state-of-the-art in this field through suggesting the future work adopted to continue to reach better values that could be used in developing the life of the humans in this world.

Professor of Solar Energy Physics at the Department of Solar and Space Research of the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG). He was born in Cairo (Egypt) in 1969. He got his B.Sc. in Physics from Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt in 1990. After there, he got his M.Sc. in Physics from the same Department in 1996 in the field of Solar Energy (Solar-Pumped Laser). Then, he got his Ph.D. in Physics from the Institute of Optics, Physics Department of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science of the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) in 2005. Currently, he is working as a Full Professor in the Solar and Space Research Department in the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), Helwan, Cairo, Egypt. His fields of interest are: Solar Energy Physics, Solar Radiation Technologies, and Cultural Astronomy.