Report on Calibration of Remotely Sensed Solar Radiation Product in Puerto Rico is now available
remote sensing
GOES-Puerto Rico Water and Energy Balance (GOES-PRWEB) 2010 Results. UPDATED WITH MORE IMAGES.
GOES-Puerto Rico Water and Energy Balance (GOES-PRWEB) 2010 results: http://wp.me/P1s0De-9j
The page now includes many more images for 2010. In addition to the water balance components, the following images are provided:
Transient Variables/Parameters
Air temperature, minimum air temperature, maximum air temperature, effective surface temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, saturated vapor pressure, actual vapor pressure, solar radiation, aerodynamic resistance (Ra), surface resistance (Rs), soil moisture, crop coefficient (Kc), crop stress factor (Ks), net radiation, latent heat flux and sensible heat flux.
Non-transient Parameters:
Surface elevation, Percent sand, silt and clay, field capacity, wilting point, land use/land cover, zero plane displacement and surface roughness, and albedo.
What are people doing with our Caribbean solar radiation data?
When asked “How are you planning to use the solar radiation data?”, here are some of the answers:
“It is going to be used as part of International Cooperation Project to build a Hospital in Haiti, to justify the need to use solar LED lights”
“In a study on solar water treatment for Haiti”
“Photovoltaic cell design”
“Help understand the magnitude and variability of solar radiation in the Caribbean”
“We’re working….on a 20K SqFt food processing facility. Still early in the process, but we’re considering solar for some of their energy needs.”
“Research for cellular company”
“Para dimensionar instalaciones solares fotovoltaicas”
“In our studies of plant photosynthesis in the coastal forest of Guánica”
“I am in the process of sizing a small stand-alone system for the general location within Kingston, Jamaica and would like to use the daily average insolation for each month.”
“To correctly size a off-grid system for Kingston, Jamaica.”
“SWAT input data”
“For solar parks”
I am very happy to see the public is finding this data useful. My thanks again to Dr. John Mecikalsk for extending the GDM GOES-based solar radiation model to include Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Cuba.
New PRAGWATER website
Today I am starting to move the pragwater website to WordPress.com The new website will be more modern looking and will have more bell and whistles. Hope you enjoy it. Please let me know if there is anything you think I should include on this website that will make it more useful to the public.
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