Solar Radiation Modeling and Measurements for Renewable Energy Applications: Data and Model Quality; Preprint

Conference · Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2004.04.034· OSTI ID:15003726

Myers, D R

Measurement and modeling of broadband and spectral terrestrial solar radiation is important for the evaluation and deployment of solar renewable energy systems. We discuss recent developments in the calibration of broadband solar radiometric instrumentation and improving broadband solar radiation measurement accuracy. An improved diffuse sky reference and radiometer calibration and characterization software and for outdoor pyranometer calibrations is outlined. Several broadband solar radiation model approaches, including some developed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, for estimating direct beam, total hemispherical and diffuse sky radiation are briefly reviewed. The latter include the Bird clear sky model for global, direct beam, and diffuse terrestrial solar radiation; the Direct Insolation Simulation Code (DISC) for estimating direct beam radiation from global measurements; and the METSTAT (Meteorological and Statistical) and Climatological Solar Radiation (CSR) models that estimate solar radiation from meteorological data. We conclude that currently the best model uncertainties are representative of the uncertainty in measured data.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-99-GO10337
• OSTI ID: 15003726
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-560-33620; TRN: US201015%%80
• Resource Relation: Journal Volume: 30; Journal Issue: 9; Conference: Prepared for the International Expert Conference on Mathematical Modeling of Solar Radiation and Daylight: Challenges for the 21st Century, 15-16 September 2003, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
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INSOLATION
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OUTDOORS
PYRANOMETERS
RADIATIONS
RADIOMETERS
SIMULATION
SKY
SOLAR RADIATION
SOLAR ENERGY
MODELING
BROADBAND
SPECTRAL TERRESTRIAL SOLAR RADIATION
SOLAR RADIOMETRIC INSTRUMENTATION
Solar Energy - Radiation