A web service for controlling the quality of measurements of global solar irradiation Geiger, M; Menard, L; Wald, L [Ecole des Mines, Paris (France). Centre d'Energetique]; Diabate, L [UFAE/GCMI, Bamako (Mali)] 14 SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; DATA; INTERNET; QUALITY CONTROL; SIMULATION The control of the quality of irradiation data is often a prerequisite to their further processing. Though data are usually controlled by meteorological offices, the sources are so numerous that the user often faces time-series of measurements containing questionable values. As customers of irradiation data, we established our own procedures to screen time-series of measurements. Since this problem of quality control is of concern to many researchers and engineers and since it is often a lengthy and tedious task, we decided to make this screening procedure available to everyone as a web service. This service is the purpose of this paper. The objective is not to perform a precise and fine control, an objective out of reach without details on the site and instruments, but to perform a likelihood control of the data and to check their plausibility. This is achieved by comparing observations with some expectations based upon the extraterrestrial irradiation and a simulation of the irradiation for clear skies. This service is available to everyone on the Web site www.helioclim.net. It offers a very convenient means to check time-series of irradiation: data are input in a HTML page by a copy and paste procedure and the return is also a HTML page that can be analyzed in detail for the data flagged as suspicious. (author) United Kingdom 2002-12-01 English Journal Article Journal Name: Solar Energy; Journal Volume: 73; Journal Issue: 6; Other Information: PBD: Dec 2002 Medium: X; Size: page(s) 475-480 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0038-092X(02)00121-4 [] 6 73 Journal ID: ISSN 0038-092X; SRENA4; TRN: GB0320459 GB 2010-12-31 20381226