Estimating solar irradiation in the Arctic
Source at https://doi.org/10.1051/rees/2016048. Solar radiation data plays an important role in pre-feasibility studies of solar electricity and/or thermal system installations. Measured solar radiation data is scarcely available due to the high cost of installing and maintaining high quality solar...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/15217 2023-05-15T14:26:22+02:00 Estimating solar irradiation in the Arctic Babar, Bilal Boström, Tobias 2016-08-22 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15217 https://doi.org/10.1051/rees/2016048 eng eng EDP Open Babar, Bilal (2019). Solar resource assessment at high latitude regions. (Doctoral thesis). https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15216. Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability Babar, B. & Boström, T. (2016). Estimating solar irradiation in the Arctic. Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability, 1 , 34. https://doi.org/10.1051/rees/2016048 FRIDAID 1384322 doi:10.1051/rees/2016048 2493-9439 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15217 openAccess VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Physics: 430 VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Fysikk: 430 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2016 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1051/rees/2016048 2021-06-25T17:56:33Z Source at https://doi.org/10.1051/rees/2016048. Solar radiation data plays an important role in pre-feasibility studies of solar electricity and/or thermal system installations. Measured solar radiation data is scarcely available due to the high cost of installing and maintaining high quality solar radiation sensors (pyranometers). Indirect measured radiation data received from geostationary satellites is unreliable at latitudes above 60 degrees due to the resulting flat viewing angle. In this paper, an empirical method to estimate solar radiation based on minimum climatological data is proposed. Eight sites in Norway are investigated, all of which lie above 60 N. The estimations by the model are compared to the ground measured values and a correlation coefficient of 0.88 was found while over all percentage error was −1.1%. The proposed models is 0.2% efficient on diurnal and 10.8% better in annual estimations than previous models. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Norway Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability 1 34 |
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Source at https://doi.org/10.1051/rees/2016048. Solar radiation data plays an important role in pre-feasibility studies of solar electricity and/or thermal system installations. Measured solar radiation data is scarcely available due to the high cost of installing and maintaining high quality solar radiation sensors (pyranometers). Indirect measured radiation data received from geostationary satellites is unreliable at latitudes above 60 degrees due to the resulting flat viewing angle. In this paper, an empirical method to estimate solar radiation based on minimum climatological data is proposed. Eight sites in Norway are investigated, all of which lie above 60 N. The estimations by the model are compared to the ground measured values and a correlation coefficient of 0.88 was found while over all percentage error was −1.1%. The proposed models is 0.2% efficient on diurnal and 10.8% better in annual estimations than previous models. |
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Babar, Bilal (2019). Solar resource assessment at high latitude regions. (Doctoral thesis). https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15216. Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability Babar, B. & Boström, T. (2016). Estimating solar irradiation in the Arctic. Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability, 1 , 34. https://doi.org/10.1051/rees/2016048 FRIDAID 1384322 doi:10.1051/rees/2016048 2493-9439 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15217 |
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