Notes on the Solar Map of Asturias
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24084/repqj09.620Abstract
The Solar Map of Asturias (SMA) is the result of a research work carried out within the project ‘‘Bio-climatic Architecture and Solar Cooling” (PSE-ARFRISOL). It is based on a correlation model, recently published, between solar irradiation and air temperature, and on the application of the software ArcGIS 9.3 for the spatial interpolation among data from 63 meteorological stations. The paper shows that the SMA estimations predict difficulties to attain in some areas the minimum solar contribution established by the Spanish Technical Code of Building. Those predictions are compared with the ones obtained by combining experimental data, Geographic Information Systems, and a solar radiation model able of computing the effects of shadows caused by the orography of the ground. It is expected that the combination of both procedures may contribute to the improvement of future SMA editions.