Improvements in the Blackbody Calibration of Pyrgeometers (Poster)

Research output: NRELPoster

Abstract

Pyrgeometers are used to measure the atmospheric longwave irradiance throughout the ARM program sites. Previous calibrations of pyrgeometers using ARM/Eppley/NREL blackbody were consistent, but introduced a difference in the historical clear sky measured irradiance. This difference was believed to be in the order of 12 W/m2. In this poster we show the improvements to the blackbody and calibrationmethodology by comparing our results to the results of a group of pyrgeometers that were recently calibrated against the World Infrared Standard Group, in the World Radiation Center, Davos/Switzerland.
Original languageAmerican English
PublisherNational Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
StatePublished - 2008

Publication series

NamePresented at the Eighteenth Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program Science Team Meeting; Norfolk, Virginia; March 10-14, 2008

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/PO-560-45867

Keywords

  • atmospheric longwave irradiance
  • blackbody
  • calibrations
  • pyrgeometer

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