BSRN data set for IEA-PVPS Task-16 Activity 1.4 Quality Control

• Main Authors: Gueymard, Christian A, Bright, Jamie M, Sun, Xixi, Augustine, John, Baika, Sidi, Brunier, Laurent, Colle, Sergio, Cuevas-Agulló, Emilio, Dehara, Kohshiro, Denn, Fred M, Duprat, Thierry, Haeffelin, Martial, Kallis, Ain, Knap, Wouter, Kustov, Vasilii, Lupi, Angelo, Maturilli, Marion, Ntsangwane, Lucky, Ogihara, Hiroyuki, Olano, Xabier, Omori, Masao, Pereira, Enio Bueno, Ramanathan, Karthik, Schmithüsen, Holger, Tully, Matt, Vogt, Roland, Vuilleumier, Laurent
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: Algeria; Alice Springs; Antarctica; ASP; Australia; AWIPEV; AWIPEV_based; Baseline Surface Radiation Network; BON; Bondville; BOS; Boulder; Brasilia; Brasilia City; Distrito Federal; Brazil; BRB; BSRN; CAB; Cabauw; CAR; Carpentras; Cener; CNR; COC; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Cocos Island; Colorado; United States of America; Concordia Station; Dome C; Cosmonauts Sea; DAA; Darwin Met Office; De Aar; Desert Rock; DOM; DRA; Dronning Maud Land; DWN; Estonia; FLO; Florianopolis; Fort Peck; FPE; France; FUA; Fukuoka; Antarc*; Cosmonauts sea
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.939988; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.939988

Ground-based radiation measurements are required for all large solar projects and for evaluating the accuracy of solar radiation models and datasets. Ground data almost always contain low-quality periods caused by instrumental issues, logging errors, or maintenance deficiencies. Therefore, quality c...