{"id":41160,"key":"Remote_spectral_prediction_for_PV_applications","title":"Remote spectral prediction for PV applications","latest":{"id":1207253,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T21:51:47Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{QAS notice}}\n\n== Research Resources and reading list ==\n\n== Appropedia Articles ==\n\n* [[Solar resource measurement for PV applications]]\n* [[Open source solar spectrum project]]\n* [[Installing RRTM for use with MATLAB on a Windows machine]]\n* [[Atmospheric Radiation Transfer for PV applications]]\n* [[Accessing NASA satellite aerosol data]]\n\n== RTM pages ==\n\n* RRTM- <http://rtweb.aer.com/rrtm_frame.html>\n* SBdart- Source code: <http://www.meto.umd.edu/~zli/METO401/AOSC625/SBDART/sbdart.f>, Manual <http://web.archive.org/web/20170329155712/http://www.dca.iag.usp.br:80/www/material/satelite/manual_sbdart.pdf>\n* SMARTS- Report <http://web.archive.org/web/20180614015450/http://rredc.nrel.gov:80/solar/models/SMARTS/relatedrefs/SMARTS2_report.pdf>, Download <http://www.nrel.gov/rredc/smarts/about.html>\n\nHow to install these on Linux (Ubuntu): [[Installing RTM Software on Linux]]\n\n== Files ==\n\n* Rob Andrews Thesis Proposal- Overview of thesis activities, and description of initial work and validations\n* Complied_spectral.mat- Initial compiled spectral information\n* Spectral_Correction.m- Prototype SBdart cloud optical thickness scheme\n* Spectral_program_comparison.m- Initial validation of codes vs. AM1.5 and NREL measured spectra. Includes spectral plane transformation code for anisotropic sky\n* Concatenate_spectral.m- Includes spectrum validation files\n* sbdartf.m- function to call the SBdartnopause.exe program, and import results\n* RRTM.m- RRTM wrapper for matlab\n* Isc_Prediction_submission.pdf- Paper outlining idendification algorithm for clear/cloudy days from timeseries. Also outlines the effects of spectral mismatch on panel performance.\n\n== Raditation databases ==\n\n* Solar Anywhere- www.solaranywhere.com\n* Solar data Warehouse- http://www.solardatawarehouse.com/Data.aspx\n* Baseline Solar Radiaiton Network- http://www.bsrn.awi.de/en/stations/listings/\n\n== HPCVL ==\n\n* http://www.hpcvl.org/\n* Parallel computing libraries- http://web.archive.org/web/20170205041557/http://www.hpcvl.org:80/faqs/dmsm-library\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:Rob Andrews Thesis]]\n[[Category:Queens Applied Sustainability Group Lab Protocols]]\n[[Category:photovoltaics]]"}