Solar Radiation Data in Cambridge Bay - CHARS Renewable and Alternative Energy priority

• Main Authors: Bennett, Meaghan, Brown, Michael, Qaumariaq, Crystal
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network 2015
• Subjects: Cambridge Bay; Diesel; Infrastructures; Renewable; Solar radiation; Sustainability; Polar Knowledge Canada/Canadian High Arctic Research Station; Arctic; Canada
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.21963/12436; https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=12436

Two pyranometers were installed on a tripod, one horizontally and one at 69 degrees to the horizontal (equal to the latitude). A snow depth sensor was also installed on the tripod. A solar tracker with a shaded pyranometer and pyrheliometer, in order to measure diffuse and direct solar radiation, is...