Processing of Solar Radiation Measurements in Python

This series of notebooks presents best practices and recommendations on how to process solar radiation measurements.

Contents

• Introduction

  • Motivation
  • Getting started

• Section 1: Reading a NetCDF file with solar radiation data

  • Opening and handling NetCDF files
  • Accessing BSRN data
  • Calculating sun position
  • Basic plotting of solar radiation measurements

• Section 2: Quality check

  • Shadow detection
  • One-component quality checks
  • Two-component tests (BSRN and SERI QC)
  • Three-component tests

• Section 3: Validation of satellite data

  • Performance metrics
  • Benchmarking

Contributions

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