• A pyranometer (from Greek πῦρ (pyr) 'fire' and ἄνω (ano) 'above, sky') is a type of actinometer used for measuring solar irradiance on a planar surface...
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    classified into two main categories - on-site pyranometers and satellite remote sensing; when onsite pyranometers are not available, regional weather stations...
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    A solarimeter is a pyranometer, a type of measuring device used to measure combined direct and diffuse solar radiation. An integrating solarimeter measures...
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  • Hygrometer for measuring humidity Anemometer for measuring wind speed Pyranometer for measuring solar radiation Rain gauge for measuring liquid precipitation...
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    cavity radiometer Bolometer Copernicus Net radiometer Photon rocket Pyranometer Radiation pressure Radiometry Solar sail Spectroradiometer Wikimedia...
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    SMHI's chancellor 1949–1954. He is credited with the invention of the pyranometer, the first device to accurately measure direct and indirect solar radiation...
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    released from a melting snowpack. Field measurement is accomplished using a pyranometer. Irradiance plays a part in climate modeling and weather forecasting...
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  • Measurement Device Description Accuracy Solar Radiation-Direct CMP-22 Pyranometer The highest quality secondary standard device, calibration directly traceable...
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    It is most commonly used in the field of ecophysiology. radiometer pyranometer pyrgeometer irradiance Meteo-Technology instrumentation website Specifications...
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    happens by using two pyranometers. The upfacing pyranometer measures the incoming global solar radiation. The downward facing pyranometer measures the reflected...
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    Calibration of field pyranometers by comparison to a reference pyranometer, is an ISO standard for the calibration of pyranometers. "ISO 9847:1992 - Solar...
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    Heliostat Photovoltaic mounting system § Orientation and inclination Pyranometer Pyrheliometer Solar access Sun chart "Solar Resource Information". National...
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    Solar energy -- Calibration of a pyranometer using a pyrheliometer, is the ISO standard for the calibration of a pyranometer using a pyrheliometer. "ISO 9846:1993...
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    Actinometer Aerosol Angstrom exponent Attenuation coefficient Beer–Lambert law Pyranometer Radiative transfer Sun photometer Transparency and translucency IUPAC...
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    Actinometers are used in meteorology to measure solar radiation as pyranometers, pyrheliometers and net radiometers. An actinometer is a chemical system...
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    sensor, lightning sensor, microphone (explosions, sonic booms, thunder), pyranometer/pyrheliometer/spectroradiometer (IR/Vis/UV photodiodes), rain gauge/snow...
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    thermal expansion). Alcohol thermometer Mercury-in-glass thermometer Pyranometer principle: solar radiation flux density relates to surface temperature...
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  • measures such as satellite image analysis or a solar radiation meter (a pyranometer) can be used to estimate total insolation for comparison. Data collected...
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    measurements and perform scientific experiments during its suborbital flight. A pyranometer is a type of actinometer used to measure broadband solar irradiance on...
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    Researchers can measure the intensity of sunlight using a sunshine recorder, pyranometer, or pyrheliometer. To calculate the amount of sunlight reaching the ground...
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    Hygrometer for measuring humidity Anemometer for measuring wind speed Pyranometer for measuring solar radiation Rain gauge for measuring liquid precipitation...
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  • detector Hook gauge evaporimeter Humistor Hygrometer Leaf sensor Lysimeter Pyranometer Pyrgeometer Psychrometer Rain gauge Rain sensor Seismometer SNOTEL Snow...
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  • hygrometer using a fish bladder in 1836. Another innovation was his pyranometer to measure solar radiation which was a closed glass capsule in which...
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  • Frederick E. Fowle) The pyranometer : an instrument for measuring sky radiation (1916 with Abbot) On the use of the pyranometer (1916 with Abbot) On the...
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    Some instruments are actually single-purpose heat flux sensors, like pyranometers for solar radiation measurement. Other heat flux sensors include Gardon...
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    system, capable of taking high resolution samples in the millivolt range. Pyranometer Radiometer "IRC-Infra red radiation calibration center Davos"....
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    precipitation Ultrasonic snow depth sensor for measuring depth of snow Pyranometer for measuring solar radiation Unlike manual weather stations, automated...
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    meteorologists, to observe and record the change of radiation. Actinometer Pyranometer (a type of actinograph) Hurter and Driffield John Timbs, The Year-book...
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    Volcanic winter – Temperature anomaly event caused by a volcanic eruption Pyranometer – Instrument for measuring solar irradiance Ship tracks – Clouds that...
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    estimates of solar irradiance from the images using local calibration by a pyranometer. The solar irradiance short-term forecasts are then fed into PV power...
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