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NREL Solar Radiation Research Laboratory (SRRL): Baseline Measurement System (BMS), Golden, Colorado

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The Solar Radiation Research Laboratory (SRRL) was established at the Solar Energy Research Institute (now NREL) in 1981 to provide continuous measurements of the solar resources, outdoor calibrations of pyranometers and pyrheliometers, and to characterize commercially available instrumentation. The SRRL is an outdoor laboratory located on South Table Mountain, a mesa providing excellent solar access throughout the year, overlooking Denver. Beginning with the basic measurements of global horizontal irradiance, direct normal irradiance and diffuse horizontal irradiance at 5-minute intervals, the SRRL Baseline Measurement System now produces more than 130 data elements at 1-min intervals that are available from the Measurement & Instrumentation Data Center Web site. Data sources include global horizontal, direct normal, diffuse horizontal (from shadowband and tracking disk), global on tilted surfaces, reflected solar irradiance, ultraviolet, infrared (upwelling and downwelling), photometric and spectral radiometers, sky imagery, and surface meteorological conditions (temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, precipitation, snow cover, wind speed and direction at multiple levels). Data quality control and assessment include daily instrument maintenance (M-F) with automated data quality control based on real-time examinations of redundant instrumentation and internal consistency checks using NREL's SERI-QC methodology. Operators are notified of equipment problems by automatic e-mail messages generated by the data acquisition and processing system. Radiometers are recalibrated at least annually with reference instruments traceable to the World Radiometric Reference (WRR).

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TY - DATA AB - The Solar Radiation Research Laboratory (SRRL) was established at the Solar Energy Research Institute (now NREL) in 1981 to provide continuous measurements of the solar resources, outdoor calibrations of pyranometers and pyrheliometers, and to characterize commercially available instrumentation. The SRRL is an outdoor laboratory located on South Table Mountain, a mesa providing excellent solar access throughout the year, overlooking Denver. Beginning with the basic measurements of global horizontal irradiance, direct normal irradiance and diffuse horizontal irradiance at 5-minute intervals, the SRRL Baseline Measurement System now produces more than 130 data elements at 1-min intervals that are available from the Measurement & Instrumentation Data Center Web site. Data sources include global horizontal, direct normal, diffuse horizontal (from shadowband and tracking disk), global on tilted surfaces, reflected solar irradiance, ultraviolet, infrared (upwelling and downwelling), photometric and spectral radiometers, sky imagery, and surface meteorological conditions (temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, precipitation, snow cover, wind speed and direction at multiple levels). Data quality control and assessment include daily instrument maintenance (M-F) with automated data quality control based on real-time examinations of redundant instrumentation and internal consistency checks using NREL's SERI-QC methodology. Operators are notified of equipment problems by automatic e-mail messages generated by the data acquisition and processing system. Radiometers are recalibrated at least annually with reference instruments traceable to the World Radiometric Reference (WRR). AU - Stoffel A2 - Andreas DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI) DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory DO - KW - weather KW - humidity KW - wind KW - precipitation KW - silicon KW - albedo KW - baseline KW - midc KW - solar KW - irradiance KW - meterological KW - measurement KW - instrumentation KW - solar calendar KW - wind rose KW - display KW - real-time KW - outdoor KW - global KW - direct KW - diffuse KW - temperature KW - pressure KW - thermopile KW - tracker KW - pyranometer KW - pyrheliometer KW - radiometer KW - rotating KW - shadowband KW - rsr KW - rsp KW - spectrum KW - spectroradiometer KW - spectrometer KW - photometer KW - pyrgeometer KW - infrared KW - IR KW - ultra-violet KW - UV KW - AOD KW - sky image KW - imager KW - sky camera KW - sky scanner KW - quantum KW - photometric KW - PAR KW - electric field KW - dry bulb KW - wet bulb KW - radiation KW - normal KW - plane of array KW - two axis KW - one axis KW - tilted KW - vertical KW - research KW - aerosols KW - analysis KW - baseline measurement system KW - srrl LA - English DA - 2015/05/05 PY - 2015 PB - National Renewable Energy Laboratory T1 - NREL Solar Radiation Research Laboratory (SRRL): Baseline Measurement System (BMS), Golden, Colorado UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/8118 ER -
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Data from May 5, 2015

Last updated Jan 13, 2025

Submitted May 5, 2015

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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T. Stoffel

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Stoffel

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Andreas

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

DOE Project Details

Project Name NREL Solar Radiation Research Laboratory Baseline Measurement System

Project Number GO28308

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