A Physics-Based DNI Model Assessing All-Sky Circumsolar Radiation
By investigating the long-term observations at Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP), we find that the routinely used Beer-Bouguer-Lambert law and the models that empirically separate direct normal irradiance (DNI) from measurements of global horizontal irradiance (GHI)...
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| Vydáno v: | iScience Ročník 23; číslo 3; s. 100893 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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United States
Elsevier Inc
27.03.2020
Elsevier |
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| ISSN: | 2589-0042, 2589-0042 |
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| Shrnutí: | By investigating the long-term observations at Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP), we find that the routinely used Beer-Bouguer-Lambert law and the models that empirically separate direct normal irradiance (DNI) from measurements of global horizontal irradiance (GHI) have dramatic and unexpected bias in computing cloudy-sky DNI. This bias has led to tremendous uncertainty in estimating the electricity generation by solar energy conversion systems. To effectively reduce the bias, this study proposes a physical solution of all-sky DNI that computes solar radiation in the infinite-narrow beam along the sun direction and the scattered radiation falls within the circumsolar region. In sharp contrast with the other DNI models, this method uses a finite-surface integration algorithm that computes solar radiation in differential solid angles and efficiently infers its contribution to a surface perpendicular to the sun direction. The new model substantially reduces the uncertainty in DNI by a factor of 2–7.
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•A dramatic and unexpected bias is found in the routine computation of DNI•A physics-based model is developed to integrate circumsolar radiances•DNI computation comprises scattered radiation in circumsolar region•This new model leads to a remarkable improvement in assessing DNI
Environmental Science; Energy Resources; Radiation Measurement |
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| ISSN: | 2589-0042 2589-0042 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.isci.2020.100893 |