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Investigate sky temperature algorithm #19

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@nealkruis

Standard 140 revealed noticeable differences in sky temperature between CSE and other programs on cloudy days.

I noticed a significant difference between the ACM documentation and the source code.

In calculating sky emissivity, the ACM (equation 76) shows:

eSky = e0 + 0.784*(1 - e0)*cldCvr/10

While the source code shows:

eSky = e0 + 0.467*(1 - e0)*cldCvr/10

As a point of comparison, TRNSYS uses:

eSky = e0 + 0.9*(1 - e0)*cldCvr/10

The "test program" reference results in Standard 140 use the same methodology as described in the ACM for equation 73 (which, to my knowledge is not actually used in CSE):

screen shot 2017-11-09 at 11 36 03 am

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