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Determination of the Historical Solar Resource for any
Latitude – Longitude location in Florida
Dr. Charles J. Cromer, Ph.D.,P.E.
Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL
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Why Is This Important?
Solar Resource Values are needed to predict long term solar equipment performance and energy delivery.
Historical Data unavailable for many remote sites and sites where potential microclimates may mediate more generalized predictions.
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Methodology
From the Heliostat-2 Method developed in Europe in the 1990’s.
Hypothesis: The lightness of each satellite pixel correlates to cloudiness and thus negatively correlates to solar energy reaching the ground.
Instead of Heliostat-2 photos, utilized 11 years of archived NOAA weather satellite photos from 2000 thru 2010.
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Sample NOAA Weather Satellite Photo
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Sample NOAA Archive Photo
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Reduced Archive Photo
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Latitude-Longitude values developed for each pixel.
Normalized Clearness index (X) calculated for each pixel via: X = max – t / max – min
Where t = gray scail table value from each picture’s pixels.
min = min (darkest) recorded valuemax = value for white
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Finding the Correlation Laws of atmospheric scattering
suggest that the form should be represented by a negative exponential:
Hd = Hc (a + bEXP(-X/c)) Where: Hd = measured direct beam Hc = calculated clear sky ground valuea, b and c are calibration coefficientsX is the normalized clearness value, or
Hd/Hc = a + bEXP(-X/c)
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All 2010 Data
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Correlations Used To Create: Hourly values for each day of the 11 years
were added for daily totals. Daily values were averaged to provide
monthly values over 11 yrs. Monthly values were averaged to provide
annual average values. All values matrix formatted such that
tables could be produced from lat-long inputs to an excel file.
Tables made available on the web via: http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/en/consumer/index.htm
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Florida Solar Atlas Data Table Values for Monthly
Average Data and Annual Average Data Were Converted into Color Tables and Inserted onto the original bitmapped picture file.
26 color plates were produced representing Direct Global radiation for each month and annual average and Direct Beam radiation for each month and annual average.
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Global Direct - January
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Global Direct - February
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Global Direct - March
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Global Direct - April
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Global Direct - May
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Global Direct - June
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Global Direct - July
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Global Direct - August
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Global Direct - September
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Global Direct - October
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Global Direct - November
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Global Direct - December
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Global Direct - Annual Average
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Determination of the Historical Solar Resource for any Latitude –
Longitude location in Florida
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Dr. Charles J. Cromer, Ph.D.,P.E.