Abstract
Site-specific, long-term, continuous, and high-resolution measurements of solar irradiance are important for developing renewable resource data. These data are used for several research and development activities consistent with the NREL mission: establish a national 30-year climatological database of measured solar irradiances; provide high quality ground-truth data for satellite remote sensingvalidation; support development of radiative transfer models for estimating solar irradiance from available meteorological observations; provide solar resource information needed for technology deployment and operations.
| Original language | American English |
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| Number of pages | 3 |
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| State | Published - 2013 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/TP-7A10-58527
Keywords
- ground-truth data
- meteorological observations
- radiative transfer models
- satellite remote sensing validation
- solar irradiance