“…In Mexico and particularly in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (GMA), continuous and systematic monitoring of solar radiation is recent (Valdés‐Barrón et al ., ); spatial and temporal distribution has barely been studied. There are studies that have exposed the behaviour of irradiation throughout the country (Almanza and Lopez, ; Galindo et al ., ; Campos‐Aranda, ; Estrada‐Cajigal and Almanza, ), whereas others have usually associated radiation with the behaviour of meteorological variables and pollutant concentrations in the GMA (Tereshchenko and Filonov, ; Davydova and Skiba, ; Ramírez‐Sánchez et al ., ; Limon‐Sanchez et al ., ).…”