Program for solar energy meteorological research and training site (Region 3). Annual progress report, October 1, 1977-December 31, 1978

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:5349444

Justus, C G; Sales, A T; Craig, J I; Schlag, J H

Eight regional university Solar Energy Meteorological Research and Training Site (SEMRATS) Program sites have been established around the United States. The Georgia Institute of Technology is the SEMRATS center for the Southeastern Region, including Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Delaware. Permanent monitoring sites on the Georgia tech campus and at Shenandoah, about 50 km (30 mi) southwest of the campus site, will continuously monitor and record global, direct, diffuse, global tilted, uv, ir, and other spectral radiation parameters. A careful program of instrument and electronic calibration and quality control will insure the accuracy of these recorded data. This report describes the sites and instrumentation, the electronics signal conditioning and averaging, and the quality control software used in the monitoring program. Some preliminary regional studies of available radiation patterns and some results of a national absolute radiometer intercomparison are also presented.

• Research Organization: Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta (USA). Engineering Experiment Station
• DOE Contract Number: FG05-77ET20153
• OSTI ID: 5349444
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/20153-T10; ORO-5604-78/4; ON: DE85016942
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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GLOBAL ASPECTS
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