Publication Date:
2024-04-20
Description:
Ground-based radiation measurements are required for all large solar projects and for evaluating the accuracy of solar radiation models and datasets. Ground data almost always contain low-quality periods caused by instrumental issues, logging errors, or maintenance deficiencies. Therefore, quality control (QC) is needed to detect and eventually flag or exclude such suspicious or erroneous data before any subsequent analysis. The few existing automatic QC methods are not perfect, thus expert visual inspection of the data is still required. In this work, we present a harmonized QC procedure, which is a combination of various available methods, including some that include an expert visual inspection. In the framework of IEA PVPS Task 16, these tests are applied to 161 world stations that are equipped with various radiometer models, including stations from the BSRN between 2015 and 2020, both years including.
Keywords:
Algeria; Alice Springs; Antarctica; ASP; Australia; AWIPEV; AWIPEV_based; Baseline Surface Radiation Network; BON; Bondville; BOS; Boulder; Brasilia; Brasilia City, Distrito Federal, Brazil; Brazil; BRB; BSRN; CAB; Cabauw; CAR; Carpentras; Cener; CNR; COC; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Cocos Island; Colorado, United States of America; Concordia Station, Dome C; Cosmonauts Sea; DAA; Darwin Met Office; De Aar; Desert Rock; DOM; DRA; Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica; DWN; Estonia; FLO; Florianopolis; Fort Peck; FPE; France; FUA; Fukuoka; GAN; Gandhinagar; GCR; Georg von Neumayer; GOB; Gobabeb; Goodwin Creek; GUR; Gurgaon; GVN; Hampton, Virginia, USA; HOW; Howrah; Illinois, United States of America; India; ISH; Ishigakijima; IZA; Izaña; Japan; Langley Research Center; LAU; Lauder; LRC; Macdonnell Ranges, Northern Territory, Australia; Minamitorishima; Minami-Torishima; Mississippi, United States of America; MNM; Monitoring station; MONS; Montana, United States of America; Namib Desert, Namibia; Neumayer_based; NEUMAYER III; Nevada, United States of America; New Zealand; NYA; Ny-Ålesund; Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen; PAL; Palaiseau, SIRTA Observatory; PAY; Payerne; Pennsylvania, United States of America; Petrolina; PSU; PTR; Rock Springs; São Martinho da Serra; SAP; Sapporo; Siberia, Russia; Sioux Falls; SMS; South Africa; South Atlantic Ocean; South Dakota, United States of America; Spain, Sarriguren, Navarra; Switzerland; SXF; SYO; Syowa; TAM; Tamanrasset; TAT; Tateno; Tenerife, Spain; The Netherlands; TIK; Tiksi; TIR; Tiruvallur; TOR; Toravere
Type:
Dataset
Format:
application/zip, 1.2 GBytes
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