Quality control of solar radiation data within the RMIB solar measurements network
Authors
Journée, M.
, Bertrand, C.
Discipline
Earth and related Environmental sciences
Subject
Global
direct and diffused solar radiation
Sunshine duration
Quality control
Empirical models
Audience
General Public
Scientific
Date
2011Publisher
IRM
KMI
RMI
Metadata
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Assessment of the solar resource is based upon measured data, where available. However, with any measurement there exist errors. Consequently, solar radiation data do not exhibit necessarily the same reliability and it often happens that users face time series of measurements containing questionable values though preliminary technical control has been done before the data release. To overcome such a situation, a major effort has been undertaken at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMIB) to develop procedures and software for performing post-measurement quality control of solar data from the radiometric stations of our in situ solar monitoring network. Moreover, because solar energy applications usually need continuous time series of solar radiation data, additional procedures have also been established to fill missing values (data initially lacking or removed via quality checks).
Citation
Journée, M.; , Bertrand, C. (2011). Quality control of solar radiation data within the RMIB solar measurements network. , Issue Solar Energy, p 72-86, IRM,Identifiers
Type
Article
Peer-Review
Not pertinent
Language
eng