Submit abstract to 2024 BSRN Workshop

[AdamRJensen]

Here's a description of the BSRN Workshop requirements

Thematic and abstract submission The workshop, in a hybrid form, will be aimed to report on the status of the network and reviewing the most recent scientific achievements and technical activities related to BSRN world. The agenda will be structured following classical BSRN workshop themes, such as: • New Stations proposals, • Station status and operations, • Operations in harsh environments and over ocean/sea • Data quality and uncertainty characterization, • New technologies for the characterization of solar and infrared radiation, • Earth-system balance, Climate models and Radiative Transfer models, • Data analysis towards value-added-products, • Aerosols and clouds effects, • Remote-sensing product validation, • Broadband and spectral albedo, • Solar energy applications, • Field campaigns and instrument inter-comparison Please feel free to contact the BSRN project manager if you have doubts about the argument you wish to propose. You may also consult the previous meeting agendas available at https://bsrn.awi.de/meetings/. Please submit your abstract by e-mail using the attached template to the WRMC/BSRN archive director Amelie Driemel (https://bsrn.awi.de/contact-persons/) by April 30, 2024, indicating if you apply for a talk or a poster presentation, and if you’re planning to attend in person or remotely. Please ask for a confirmation receipt. A certain priority will be given to folks attending the workshop in person, although we will try to accommodate all the pertinent requests. We foresee 20 minutes slots including questions.

There's a 300-word limit, and the deadline for abstract submission is April 30, 2024.

[AdamRJensen]

Abstract:

Availability of solar radiation measurements outside the BSRN Adam R. Jensen, Ioannis Sifnaios Technical University of Denmark, Koppels Allé 404, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark arajen@dtu.dk

High-quality solar radiation measurements are expensive and time-consuming to carry out, hence solar radiation monitoring stations are scarce. With 47 active stations, the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) represents the only global network for solar radiation measurements and consequently sees widespread usage (Driemel, A., 2018). Apart from the BSRN, a handful of national networks also exist. However, most solar radiation monitoring stations are individually operated by meteorological institutes, universities, or research organizations. Regrettably, most of the existing monitoring stations, which are not part of a larger network, are difficult to locate, and retrieving data from such stations is often cumbersome. As a result, most solar resource and radiation model development studies only use a fraction of the available data, almost always relying on the BSRN and a few well-known stations.

To this end, the authors have developed the only comprehensive catalog of solar radiation monitoring stations. The catalog is available at SolarStations.org and contains metadata of most of the existing solar radiation monitoring stations worldwide. The available metadata includes location, station owner and network, data availability, and instrumentation/station tier. This information lets users make quick, informed decisions about what stations to use for a potential study, ultimately increasing the usage of high-quality solar radiation data with improvements in scientific rigor to follow.

Figure 1: Overview of solar radiation monitoring stations worldwide from SolarStations.org.

References: Driemel, A., Augustine, J., Behrens, K., Colle, S., Cox, C., Cuevas-Agulló, E., Denn, F.M., Duprat, T., Fukuda, M., Grobe, H. and Haeffelin, M., 2018. Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN): structure and data description (1992–2017). Earth System Science Data, 10(3), pp.1491-1501.

[AdamRJensen]

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[AdamRJensen]

Final abstract

Availability of solar radiation measurements outside the BSRN

Adam R. Jensen, Ioannis Sifnaios Technical University of Denmark, Koppels Allé 404, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark arajen@dtu.dk

High-quality solar radiation measurements are expensive and time-consuming to carry out, hence solar radiation monitoring stations are scarce. With 47 active stations, the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) represents the only global network for solar radiation measurements and consequently sees widespread usage (Driemel, A., 2018). Apart from the BSRN, only a handful of countries feature a national network. Predominantly, solar radiation monitoring stations are operated by meteorological institutes, universities, or research organizations. Regrettably, most of the existing monitoring stations are difficult to locate for novice users, and retrieving data is often cumbersome or impossible. As a result, most solar resource and radiation model development studies only use a fraction of the available data globally, almost always relying on the BSRN and a limited number of well-known stations.

High-quality solar radiation measurements are expensive and time-consuming to carry out, hence solar radiation monitoring stations are scarce. With 47 active stations, the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) represents the only global network for solar radiation measurements and consequently sees widespread usage (Driemel, A., 2018). Apart from the BSRN, only a handful of countries feature a national network. Predominantly, solar radiation monitoring stations are operated by meteorological institutes, universities, or research organizations. Regrettably, most of the existing monitoring stations are difficult to locate for novice users, and retrieving data is often cumbersome or impossible. As a result, most solar resource and radiation model development studies only use a fraction of the available data globally, almost always relying on the BSRN and a limited number of well-known stations.

Figure 1: Overview of solar radiation monitoring stations worldwide from SolarStations.org.

The presentation will give an insight into the distribution of the almost 600 stations identified worldwide, as well as instrumentation, data availability, and networks.

References Driemel, A., Augustine, J., Behrens, K., Colle, S., Cox, C., Cuevas-Agulló, E., Denn, F.M., Duprat, T., Fukuda, M., Grobe, H. and Haeffelin, M., 2018. Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN): structure and data description (1992–2017). Earth System Science Data, 10(3), pp.1491-1501.