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Preliminary survey on site-adaptation techniques for satellite-derived and reanalysis solar radiation datasets

Jesus Polo 1, * Stefan Wilbert 2 José A. Ruiz-Arias 3 Richard Meyer 4 Christian Gueymard 5 Marcel Suri 6 Luis Martin 7 Theresa Mieslinger 4 Philippe Blanc 8 Ian Grant 9 John Boland 10 Pierre Ineichen 11 Jan Remund 12 Rodrigo Escobar 13 Alberto Troccoli 14 Manajit Sengupta 15 Kristian Pagh Nielsen 16 David Renné 15, 17 Norbert Geuder 18, 19 Tomas Cebecauer 6
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1 Solar Platform of Almeria
2 DLR - German Aerospace Center
3 MATRAS Group
4 Suntrace GmbH
5 Solar Consulting Services
6 GeoModel
7 IrSOLaV
8 O.I.E. - Centre Observation, Impacts, Énergie
9 BoM - Australian Bureau of Meteorology [Melbourne]
10 University of South Australia [Adelaide]
11 CUEPE - CUEPE
12 Meteotest
13 UC - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
14 ECMWF - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
15 NREL
16 DMI - Danish Meteorological Institute
17 Dave Renné Renewables
18 CSP Services
19 Centre for Applied Research of Sustainable Energy Technology - Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
Abstract : At any site, the bankability of a projected solar power plant largely depends on the accuracy and general quality of the solar radiation data generated during the solar resource assessment phase. The term “site adaptation” has recently started to be used in the framework of solar energy projects to refer to the improvement that can be achieved in satellite-derived solar irradiance and model data when short-term local ground measurements are used to correct systematic errors and bias in the original dataset. This contribution presents a preliminary survey of different possible techniques that can improve long-term satellite-derived and model-derived solar radiation data through the use of short-term on-site ground measurements. The possible approaches that are reported here may be applied in different ways, depending on the origin and characteristics of the uncertainties in the modeled data. This work, which is the first step of a forthcoming in-depth assessment of methodologies for site adaptation, has been done within the framework of the International Energy Agency Solar Heating and Cooling Programme Task 46 “Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting”.
Keywords : Solar radiation model-derived data Site adaptation Bankability of data for solar projects Satellite-derived solar radiation
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Jesus Polo, Stefan Wilbert, José A. Ruiz-Arias, Richard Meyer, Christian Gueymard, et al.. Preliminary survey on site-adaptation techniques for satellite-derived and reanalysis solar radiation datasets. Solar Energy, Elsevier, 2016, 132, pp.25-37. ⟨10.1016/j.solener.2016.03.001⟩. ⟨hal-01297310⟩

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