Computation of daylength

calculates daily daylight duration

computational task, discrete-time task, nonlinear task

Description

This task computes the duration of daylight for a given day and geographic location using latitude and solar declination angle. The task produces a deterministic estimate of photoperiod for each simulation day. The resulting daylength is used to modulate radiation-driven and phenology-dependent biological processes.

Contained entities

daylength		output
solar declination angle equation	$S D_{i} = 0.4102 \sin (\frac{2 π}{365} (i - 80.25))$
	$S D$ represents solar declination angle
	$i$ represents day index

day index		input
latitude		input
daylength calculation equation	$H R L T_{i} = 7.64 \cos^{- 1} (\frac{- \sin (\frac{2 π}{360} L A T) \sin (S D_{i}) - 0.044}{\cos (\frac{2 π}{360} L A T) \cos (S D_{i})})$
	$H R L T$ represents daylength
	$L A T$ represents latitude
	$S D$ represents solar declination angle

Further links

Item	Property
computation of potential crop biomass growth	contains
daylength model	used by

Edit computation of daylength item

This page was built for task: computation of daylength