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Progress Towards Deriving an Improved Long-Term Global Solar ResourceThis paper describes an ongoing project to provide the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with a global long-term advanced global solar mapping production system for improved depiction of historical solar resources and to provide a mechanism for continual updates. This new production system is made possible by the efforts of NASA and NOAA to completely reprocess the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) data set that provides satellite visible and infrared radiances together with retrieved cloud and surface properties on a 10 km, 3-hourly basis beginning July 1983. We provide a general overview of this project, samples of the new solar irradiance mapped data products, and comparisons to surface measurements. Samples of the use of the SUNY-Albany solar irradiance algorithm applied to the ISCCP data show very good agreement with high quality surface measurements. We identify the next steps in the production of the data set.
Document ID
20130013381
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Cox, Stephen J. (Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, VA, United States)
Mikovitz, J. Colleen (Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, VA, United States)
Zhang, Taiping (Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, VA, United States)
Sorlie, Susan (Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, VA, United States)
Stackhouse, Paul W., Jr. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Perez, Richard (State Univ. of New York Albany, NY, United States)
Hemker, Karl, Jr. (State Univ. of New York Albany, NY, United States)
Schlemmer, James (State Univ. of New York Albany, NY, United States)
Kivalov, Sergey (State Univ. of New York Albany, NY, United States)
Renne, David (National Renewable Energy Lab. Golden, CO, United States)
Sengupta, Manajit (National Renewable Energy Lab. Golden, CO, United States)
Bates, John (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Asheville, NC, United States)
Knapp, Kenneth (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Asheville, NC, United States)
Date Acquired
August 27, 2013
Publication Date
April 16, 2013
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Report/Patent Number
NF1676L-16442
Meeting Information
Meeting: SOLAR 2013
Location: Baltimore, MD
Country: United States
Start Date: April 16, 2013
End Date: April 20, 2013
Sponsors: American Solar Energy Society
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 389018.02.15.04.80
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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