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AssessingSolar / solarstations

A catalog of high-quality solar radiation monitoring stations.

https://SolarStations.Org

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Data article for Solar Energy #105

Open AdamRJensen opened 9 months ago

AdamRJensen commented 9 months ago

Images:

[x] Add overview image
[x] Add screen-shot of table
[ ] Photos indicating the different tiers (1: DTU Climate station, 2: SPN1 and RSR)

AdamRJensen commented 1 month ago

Introduction

Data is useful for

Radiation Model development
Benchmarking data sets
Tuning datasets
Simulation of stuff
Climate radiation budget

Describing the need

[x] Hard to find stations
[x] Lower quality of data
[x] Led to poor geographical coverage of studies
[x] Higher uncertainties for PV projects

Highlight how the BSRN is used in so many studies

[ ] Point out 1-3 studies and how they could have had a lot more
[ ] Since the last global benchmark, known stations in that period has increased by ## stations

Methodology

Finding stations

[x] Mention how this project sprang out of Task 16 benchmark
[x] Search the web... reports, publications, presentations,
[x] Reached out to scientific communities for input
[x] Benchmarking reports (cite a few)

Classifications / Scope

[x] Multi-component (classification based on instrumentation)
[x] Not necessarily high quality (because that depends on more than instrumentation and can vary from year to year.
[x] Discuss why multi-component? To limit the number of stations because there are thousands of single pyranometer stations in national meteorological networks

Setup/tooling

[x] Simple CSV file (easy to distribute and git and edit)
[x] Enhancement with metadata

Statistics

[ ] See the statistics page

Recommendations

[ ] Standardized file format
[ ] File server like Zenodo!
[ ] Network/repository for science stations (lower quality than BSRN)
[x] Name drop iotools (how many does it serve)

Limitations

[x] Russia, non-western countries
[x] Historical
[x] Guaranteed missing stations

Future outlook

[x] Keep it updated! Community effort (accept contributions, PRs)

Other

[x] Use the terminology "known stations"
[x] Invite Gueymard as co-author

AdamRJensen commented 2 weeks ago

To do:

[ ] Make the conclusion a bit more about the issue
- Even with the catalog, many stations are not good at providing information