solar azimuth angle derivations

  1. solar azimuth angle from latitude and solar declination/hour/zenith angles

    symbol description unit variable name
    \(\theta_{0}\) solar zenith angle \(deg\) solar_zenith_angle {time}
    \(\delta\) solar declination angle \(deg\) solar_declination_angle {time}
    \(\phi\) latitude \(degN\) latitude {time}
    \(\varphi_{0}\) solar azimuth angle \(deg\) solar_azimuth_angle {time}
    \(\omega\) solar hour angle \(deg\) solar_hour_angle {time}
    \begin{eqnarray} \varphi_{0} & = & \begin{cases} \sin(\frac{\pi}{180}\theta_{0}) = 0, & 0 \\ \sin(\frac{\pi}{180}\theta_{0}) \neq 0 \wedge \omega > 0, & -\frac{180}{\pi}\arccos(\frac{\sin(\frac{\pi}{180}\delta)\cos(\frac{\pi}{180}\phi) - \cos(\frac{\pi}{180}\omega)\cos(\frac{\pi}{180}\delta)\sin(\frac{\pi}{180}\phi)}{\sin(\frac{\pi}{180}\theta_{0})}) \\ \sin(\frac{\pi}{180}\theta_{0}) \neq 0 \wedge \omega <= 0, & \frac{180}{\pi}\arccos(\frac{\sin(\frac{\pi}{180}\delta)\cos(\frac{\pi}{180}\phi) - \cos(\frac{\pi}{180}\omega)\cos(\frac{\pi}{180}\delta)\sin(\frac{\pi}{180}\phi)}{\sin(\frac{\pi}{180}\theta_{0})}) \end{cases} \end{eqnarray}