How to Use irradiance in a Sentence

irradiance

noun
  • Next comes site selection, which is more than just the availability of solar irradiance or wind speed.
    — Yuvraj Kshirsagar, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Solar irradiance is the amount of power that falls on the surface of the earth, measured in watts per square meter (W/m2).
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Skip TikTok Shop dupes that don’t publish wavelength or irradiance numbers.
    — Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026
  • Skip TikTok Shop dupes that don’t publish wavelength or irradiance numbers.
    — Allison Palmer updated June 24, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026
  • Solar power works for missions close to the sun, but by the time a spacecraft gets to Jupiter, the available solar irradiance drops below 4 percent of that on Earth.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2025
  • And this has always been a problem because spacecraft observations support the smaller number, and no mechanism for amplifying the solar irradiance has been proven.
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This has always been a problem because spacecraft observations support the smaller number, and no mechanism for amplifying the solar irradiance has been proven.
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Technically known as cloud irradiance, this effect increases horizontal irradiance on the ground to levels above those expected for a cloudless sky.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 25 May 2026
  • Fewer sunspots means less activity, and lower radiation from the sun, called TSI (total solar irradiance).
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Researchers isolated phenomena including the El Niño weather phase, volcanic eruptions and solar irradiance.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • There is no standardized regulatory framework requiring consumer LED devices to verify or publish their irradiance.
    — Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • The researchers modeled solar variability using a normal distribution with a mean of 80% of nominal irradiance and a standard deviation of 12% to capture seasonal and diurnal shifts.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Additionally, environmental sensors feed real-time wind, humidity and solar irradiance data back to the base station, which boasts a predictive algorithm that determines exactly when and where Icaro should intervene.
    — Jill Barth, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Researchers at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile studied CEEs in solar panels and published a paper in 2019, highlighting the impact of cloud irradiance on solar power plants.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 25 May 2026

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