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Preferred term

duration of sunshine

Definition

Sunshine duration or sunshine hours is a climatological indicator, measuring duration of sunshine in given period (usually, a day or a year) for a given location on Earth, typically expressed as an average of several years. [Wikipedia] the period during which direct solar a title=\\"Irradiance\\" href=\\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irradiance\\"irradiance/a exceeds a threshold value of 120 W/m².

Broader concept

deprecated concept

Scope note

LTER EU controlled vocabulary

Creator

herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/EnvEu_111

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Created 3/31/16, last modified 6/18/18

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