This book gives a comprehensive overview of activities currently under way to produce, collect and compile radiation data as needed for the various types of solar energy applications in Europe. Contributions have been made by all contractors of the Commission of the European Communities, in par- ticular the Meteorological Offices of the EC member countries. They all re- ported on their work at a meeting which was held in October 1982 in Brussels and of which these are the proceedings. The Commission' work in this area follows a detailed strategy which was published earlier as part of the...

W. PALZ, Commission of the European Communities, Directorate-General for Science, Research and Development, Brussels STRATEGY PAPER EC SOLAR ENERGY R&D PROGRAMME Project F, Solar Radiation Data - OUTLINE (Status as of April 1981) 5 ACTION 1 -Calibration and characteristics of radiometers J. -L. PLAZY, Commissariat a l'Energie Solaire, Sophia Anti- polis, Val bonne , France 11 ACTION 2 -Short reference years H. LUND, Thermal Insulation Laboratory, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark 19 ACTION 3 -ATLAS AND DATA BOOKS (from existing data) ACTION 3. 1 - Global irradiance on...