NASA NTRS · 20130013381
Progress Towards Deriving an Improved Long-Term Global Solar Resource
Abstract
This paper describes an ongoing project to provide the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with a global long-term advanced global solar mapping production system for improved depiction of historical solar resources and to provide a mechanism for continual updates. This new production system is made possible by the efforts of NASA and NOAA to completely reprocess the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) data set that provides satellite visible and infrared radiances together with retrieved cloud and surface properties on a 10 km, 3-hourly basis beginning July 1983. We provide a general overview of this project, samples of the new solar irradiance mapped data products, and comparisons to surface measurements. Samples of the use of the SUNY-Albany solar irradiance algorithm applied to the ISCCP data show very good agreement with high quality surface measurements. We identify the next steps in the production of the data set.
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Cox, Stephen J., Mikovitz, J. Colleen, Zhang, Taiping, Sorlie, Susan, Stackhouse, Paul W., Jr., Perez, Richard, Hemker, Karl, Jr., Schlemmer, James, Kivalov, Sergey, Renne, David, Sengupta, Manajit, Bates, John, Knapp, Kenneth. 2013-04-16. Progress Towards Deriving an Improved Long-Term Global Solar Resource. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20130013381
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