Solar measurements....what one might expect
steve_b
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Hey folks,
This isn't directly related to a stamp project I have done....but might give someone an idea what to expect if wanting to monitor solar energy/light.
Before Christmas I installed a number of environmental sensors as part of a field project at work.
(some of the gear: laser Ceilometer, Precip doppler radar (vertical), hotplate precip sensors, standard temps and wind, visibility sensor and barometry...etc...)
One of the items that I hadn't played with too much was a Licor Radiation sensor.
A fairly sensitive device, it is mounted on a tower and will actually detect the shadow from one of the guy-wires.
The past few hours at the site has been clear with little or no clouds and high visibility.
I've attached a graph of the Licor sensor, showing the·data ramp somewhat linearly as the sun rose.· You can see a slight blip at about 1146z which may be one of the guy wires shadowing the sensor (or it could've been a small cloud).
Anyhow, just thought it was interesting....it's the first "smooth" graph we've had since installation (as we've had lots of cloud/precip at the site since install).
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Steve
"Inside each and every one of us is our one, true authentic swing. Something we was born with. Something that's ours and ours alone. Something that can't be learned... something that's got to be remembered."
This isn't directly related to a stamp project I have done....but might give someone an idea what to expect if wanting to monitor solar energy/light.
Before Christmas I installed a number of environmental sensors as part of a field project at work.
(some of the gear: laser Ceilometer, Precip doppler radar (vertical), hotplate precip sensors, standard temps and wind, visibility sensor and barometry...etc...)
One of the items that I hadn't played with too much was a Licor Radiation sensor.
A fairly sensitive device, it is mounted on a tower and will actually detect the shadow from one of the guy-wires.
The past few hours at the site has been clear with little or no clouds and high visibility.
I've attached a graph of the Licor sensor, showing the·data ramp somewhat linearly as the sun rose.· You can see a slight blip at about 1146z which may be one of the guy wires shadowing the sensor (or it could've been a small cloud).
Anyhow, just thought it was interesting....it's the first "smooth" graph we've had since installation (as we've had lots of cloud/precip at the site since install).
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Steve
"Inside each and every one of us is our one, true authentic swing. Something we was born with. Something that's ours and ours alone. Something that can't be learned... something that's got to be remembered."
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