Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: pollination-direct-sun-hours
Version: 0.2.0
Summary: Direct sun hours recipe for Pollination.
Home-page: https://github.com/pollination/direct-sun-hours
Author: ladybug-tools
Author-email: info@ladybug.tools
Maintainer: mostapha, ladybug-tools
Maintainer-email: mostapha@ladybug.tools, info@ladybug.tools
License: PolyForm Shield License 1.0.0, https://polyformproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/PolyForm-Shield-1.0.0.txt
Project-URL: icon, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ladybug-tools/artwork/master/icons_components/honeybee/png/directsun.png
Project-URL: docker, https://hub.docker.com/r/ladybugtools/honeybee-radiance
Description: # direct-sun-hours
        
        Direct sun hours for Pollination
        
        Calculate the number of hours of direct sunlight received by grids of sensors during the
        year. The recipe generates 3 subfolders under results folder:
        
        1. `direct_sun_hours`: Hourly results for number of hours that each sensor is exposed
          to sun. The units are the timestep of input wea file. For an hourly wea each value
          corresponds to an hour of direct sunlight.
        
        2. `cumulative`: The cumulative number of hours for each sensor during all the timesteps.
          The value is a single integer for each input sensor.
        
        3. `direct_radiation`: Hourly direct radiation from sun. This output does not include the
          indirect sky radiation. For total radiation see `annual radiation` or
        `annual sky radiation` recipes.
        
        # Limitations
        
        This recipe is limited to calculating up to `9999` number of suns at a time. This means
        you might need to break down the annual studies with smaller timesteps into smaller
        runs. This limitation is a result of how Radiance sets a limit on number of modifiers
        in a single run. [See here](https://discourse.radiance-online.org/t/increase-maximum-number-of-modifiers-in-rcontrib/4684). We can address this limitation by either building our own version of Radiance
        or breaking down the modifier list and looping over them and merging back the results.
        
Keywords: honeybee,radiance,ladybug-tools,daylight,direct-sun-hours
Platform: UNKNOWN
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