solar hour angle derivations — HARP 1.20.1 documentation

# solar hour angle derivations

1. solar hour angle from datetime and longitude

   symbol | description | unit | variable name
   --- | --- | --- | ---
   \(EOT\) | equation of time | \(minutes\) |
   \(t\) | datetime (UTC) | \(s\) since 2000-01-01 | datetime {time}
   \(\eta\) | orbit angle of the earth around the sun | \(rad\) |
   \(\lambda\) | longitude | \(degE\) | longitude {time}
   \(\omega\) | solar hour angle | \(deg\) | solar_hour_angle {time}

   \begin{eqnarray} A & = & 2\pi \left( \frac{t + 10 \cdot 86400}{365.2422 \cdot 86400} - \lfloor \frac{t + 10 \cdot 86400}{365.2422 \cdot 86400} \rfloor \right) \\ B & = & A + 2 \cdot 0.0167 \sin( 2\pi \left( \frac{t - 2 \cdot 86400}{365.2422 \cdot 86400} - \lfloor \frac{t - 2 \cdot 86400}{365.2422 \cdot 86400} \rfloor \right) ) \\ C & = & \frac{A - \arctan(\frac{\tan(B)}{cos(\frac{\pi}{180} 23.44)})}{\pi} \\ EOT & = & 720 \left( C - \lfloor C + 0.5 \rfloor \right) \\ \omega & = & \lambda + 360 \left( \frac{t}{86400} - \lfloor \frac{t}{86400} \rfloor + \frac{EOT}{24 \cdot 60} \right) - 180 \end{eqnarray}

   The solar hour angle will be mapped to [-180,180].