Satellite Based Assessment of the NSRDB Site Irradiances and Time Series from NASA and SUNY/Albany Algorithms
In April, 2007, the National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory was updated for the period from 1991 to 2005. NSRDB includes monthly averaged summary statistics from 221 Class I sites spanning the entire time period with least uncertainty. In 2008, the NASA GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) project updated its satellite-derived solar surface irradiance to Release 3.0. This dataset spans July 1983 to June 2006 at a 1ox1o resolution. In this paper, we compare the NSRDB data monthly average summary statistics to NASA SRB data that has been validated favorably against the BSRN, SURFRAD, WRDC and GEBA datasets. The SRB-NSRDB comparison reveals reasonably good agreement of the two datasets.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 1022362
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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