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@@ -146,8 +146,7 @@ In the first mode it calculates solar incidence angle and solar irradiance
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raster maps using the set local time. In the second mode daily sums of solar
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irradiation [Wh.m-2.day-1] are computed for a specified day.
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-<h2>
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-NOTES</h2>
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+<h2>NOTES</h2>
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Solar energy is an important input parameter in different models concerning
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energy industry, landscape, vegetation, evapotranspiration, snowmelt or remote
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@@ -182,6 +181,31 @@ in the northern hemisphere (see reference literature for your study area):
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<p>Planned improvements include the use of the SOLPOS algorithm for solar
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geometry calculations and internal computation of aspect and slope.
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+<h3>Solar time</h3>
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+
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+By default r.sun calculates times as true solar time, whereby solar noon is
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+always exactly 12 o'clock everywhere in the current region. Depending on where
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+the zone of interest is located in the related time zone, this may cause
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+differences of up to an hour, in some cases (like Western Spain) even more.
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+On top of this, the offset varies during the year according to the Equation
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+of Time.
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+<p>
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+To overcome this problem, the user can use the option <em>civiltime=<timezone_offset></em>
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+in r.sun to make it use real-world (wall clock) time. For example, for Central
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+Europe the timezone offset is +1, +2 when daylight saving time is in effect.
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+<p>
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+<!-- WE DON'T KNOW, check source code:
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+If the user use the <em>civiltime</em> parameter, also the longitude needs to
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+be supplied as a raster map with the <em>longin</em> parameter. Within a
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+latlon location, such a map can be easily made with:
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+
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+<div class="code"><pre>
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+r.mapcalc lon_raster='x()'
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+</pre></div>
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+
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+END OF WE DON'T KNOW
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+-->
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+
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<h3>Shadow maps</h3>
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A map of shadows can be extracted from the solar incidence angle map
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(incidout). Areas with zero values are shadowed. The <em>-s</em> flag
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