RT Journal Article
T1 Field Quality Control of Spectral Solar Irradiance Measurements by Comparison with Broadband Measurements
A1 Marzo, Aitor
A1 Ballestrín, Jesús
A1 Alonso Montesinos, Joaquín
A1 Ferrada, Pablo
A1 Polo, Jesús
A1 López Rodríguez, Gabriel
A1 Barbero, Javier
AB Measurement of solar spectral irradiance is required in an increasingly wide variety oftechnical applications, such as atmospheric studies, health, and solar energy, among others. The solarspectral irradiance at ground level has a strong dependence on many atmospheric parameters. Inaddition, spectroradiometer optics and detectors have high sensitivity. Because of this, it is necessaryto compare with a reference instrumentation or light source to verify the quality of measurements. Asimple and realistic test for validating solar spectral irradiance measurements is presented in thisstudy. This methodology is applicable for a specific spectral range inside the broadband range from280 to 4000 nm under cloudless sky conditions. The method compares solar spectral irradiancemeasurements with both predictions of clear-sky solar spectral irradiance and measurements ofbroadband instruments such as pyrheliometers. For the spectral estimation, a free atmospherictransmittance simulation code with the air mass calculation as the mean parameter was used. Thespectral direct normal irradiance (Gbl) measurements of two different spectroradiometers were testedat Plataforma Solar de Almería, Spain. The results are presented in this article. Although only Gblmeasurements were considered in this study, the same methodology can be applied to the other solarirradiance components
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050 (electrónico)
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20262
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20262
LA eng
NO Marzo, A., Ballestrín, J., Alonso-Montesinos, J., Ferrada, P., Polo, J., López, G., & Barbero, J. (2021). Field Quality Control of Spectral Solar Irradiance Measurements by Comparison with Broadband Measurements. In Sustainability (Vol. 13, Issue 19, p. 10585). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910585
NO This research was funded by the Chilean Corporación de Fomento de la Producción(CORFO), grant number 17BPE3-83761, and 7PTECES-75830 under the framework of the project“AtaMoS TeC,” by the ANID grant number ANID/FONDAP/15110019 (SERC-Chile) and ANID/FONDECYT-INITIATION/11190289, funded by the Spanish Education and Competitivity Ministryand co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund grant number ENE2017-83790-C3-1,2,3 and by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and co-financed by the EuropeanRegional Development Fund grant reference PID2020-118239RJ-I00 (MAPVSpain)Special thanks to Antonio Campos (PSA, Spain) for his support during this work
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026