Equipment Loan: Cooperative Research and Development Final Report, CRADA Number CRD-07-250
- Resource Type
- Technical Report
- Authors
- Source
- Subject
- 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION SOLAR IRRADIANCE
GROUND-TRUTH DATA
SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING VALIDATION
RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
Solar Energy - Thermal
SOLAR IRRADIANCE
- Language
- English
Site-specific, long-term, continuous, and high-resolution measurements of solar irradiance are important for developing renewable resource data. These data are used for several research and development activities consistent with the NREL mission: establish a national 30-year climatological database of measured solar irradiances; provide high quality ground-truth data for satellite remote sensing validation; support development of radiative transfer models for estimating solar irradiance from available meteorological observations; provide solar resource information needed for technology deployment and operations.