A simulation program has been developed which can estimate the hourly values of cloud amount CC, relative sunshine duration SD, and rain and snow index RS throughout a year, providing sufficient statistical information indicating the respective characteristics of CC, SD, and RS and the relations among them are given as input data. In addition, the indefinite parts of CC, SD, and RS are numerically determined in this program by the Monte Carlo method as probability problems. The value of hourly solar radiation TH can be calculated, if the simulated CC, SD, and RS are put in the formula for the estimation of TH value, presented by the author in Ref. (5). By the procedure stated above, CC, SD, RS, and TH values are generated throughout a year by inputting statistical information picked out of the hourly weather observations at Kagoshima City in 1975. The calculations are compared with the observations from several viewpoints of statistical characteristics, and these characteristics of the calculations were found to show high repeatability with those of the observations.
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