Generate additional metadata

[AdamRJensen]

It would be nice to provide additional metadata for the stations, including:

• Climate classification (Köppen Geiger) Add Koppen Geiger climate zone to station listing #121
• Annual irradiance (just GHI or all three components?)
• Continent (useful for sorting the station listing and statistics) Add continent to metadata #203
• PV Climate Zones (mentioned by Kevin below)

It would be optimal to automatically generate this metadata. The annual irradiance could come from a provider with global coverage, e.g., NASA Power or the Global Solar Atlas. The continent could be determined based on latitude/longitude.

Additional things to consider:

• In this paper by Gueymard only four climate classifications were used. (will not add this)

[kandersolar]

You may also be interested in PV Climate Zones: https://pvtools.lbl.gov/pv-climate-stressors and https://github.com/toddkarin/pvcz

[AdamRJensen]

Thanks @kanderso-nrel. Is PV Climate Zone actually something that is used?

I noticed that the first link also shows Köppen Geiger climate zones, so perhaps I can get some inspiration for how to program that.

[kandersolar]

It's a relatively new development (especially compared w/ something like KG), but yes it is getting used: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=7515697662620840254&as_sdt=4005&sciodt=0,6&hl=en

[kandersolar]

This package has high-resolution KG classification lookup: https://pypi.org/project/kgcPy/