Solar radiation in Yucatán Peninsula, preliminary analysis

The Solar Radiation patterns on the Yucatán Peninsula have been studied in the Energy Laboratory of the Autonomous University of Yucatan using measurements of direct and global radiation on the horizontal plane. The raw data measured every two seconds and average every one minute was recorded automatically using a data-logger with a pyrheliometer and a pyranometer which were installed on top of an automatic solar tracking system. The diurnal variation and frequency distribution of solar radiation were computed and discussed. Mean daily, monthly and seasonal were calculated from the measured data and analysed within each calculation period.