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Comments on Quality Control of Solar Radiation Data Measured at a Ground Station in Hot and Dry Zone

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Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt. of India has set a target of 100 giga watts (GW) power from solar power till 2022. Hence, the importance of solar radiation resource assessment. Ground-based solar radiation measurement and its quality plays an important role in the study of estimation of solar radiation and forecasting of solar power produced. In this paper hourly averaged solar irradiance data on a horizontal surface, measured at Indian Meteorological Department weather station for the hot and dry region, Jodhpur (India) is analyzed for the month of August, 2015. Data quality check is done in two stages where, at the first stage, solar irradiance is taken in original form, and then in the second stage BSRN standard guidelines, coherence and correlation tests are applied. Data quality check of ground-based solar radiation data for Jodhpur during rainy season (month having highest error/disturbances) highlights the need to include other weather parameters such as rainfall data. The results are compared with other available data, and some suggestions for data quality improvement are discussed.

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Abbreviations

\(\varepsilon\) :

Earth Eccentricity Factor

\(I_{E}\) :

Extraterrestrial Radiation

W :

Watts

Z :

Zenith Angle

AMS:

Advance Measurement Station

BSRN:

Baseline Surface Radiation Network

C-WET:

Centre for Wind Energy Technology

CIEMAT:

Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas

DHI:

Diffuse Horizontal Irradiance (W/m2)

DLR:

Deutsches Zentrum Für Luft- und Raumfahrt

DNI:

Direct Normal Irradiance (W/m2)

ETR:

Extraterrestrial Radiation

GHI:

Global Horizontal Irradiance (W/m2)

IMD:

Indian Meteorological Department

ISO:

International Organization for Standards

JNNSM:

Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission

K :

Diffuse Horizontal Transmittance (DHI/GHI)

K n :

Direct Beam Transmittance (DNI/IE)

K t :

Clearness Index (GHI/(IE x cos(z)))

MESOR:

Management and Exploitation of Solar Resource Knowledge

MNRE:

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

NIP:

Normal Incidence Pyrheliometer

NREL:

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

PSP:

Precision Spectral Pyranometer

RMIB:

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

SERI-QC:

Solar Energy Research Institute Quality Control software package

SRRA:

Solar Radiation Resource Analysis

WMO:

World Meteorological Organization

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the IMD, Pune for supplying the data of Jodhpur and the MNRE, C-WET personnel (Dr. G. Giridhar and his colleagues) for their help in organizing an SRRA training program at IIT Jodhpur.

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  1. Centre for Energy, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, 342001, Rajasthan, India

    D. Kumar

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, 342001, Rajasthan, India

    B. Ravindra

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    Laltu Chandra

  2. Department of Physics and Center for Solar Energy, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

    Ambesh Dixit

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Kumar, D., Ravindra, B. (2018). Comments on Quality Control of Solar Radiation Data Measured at a Ground Station in Hot and Dry Zone. In: Chandra, L., Dixit, A. (eds) Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy Technologies. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4576-9_4

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