PVRAD

Software to extract irradiance and atmospheric optical properties from PV power plants, developed in the context of the MetPVNet project

aeronetmystic

• Use AERONET data to create log-linear fit and extract Angstrom parameters
• Plot daily Angstrom fits if required

configs

• All config files used by the different submodules are saved here

cosmomystic

• Combine US standard atmosphere with data from COSMO weather model
• Create atmosphere input files for libRadtran radiative transfer simulation
• Find grid boxes closest to relevant PV stations

cosmopvcal

• Extract surface data from COSMO weather model, relevant to PV modelling
• Ambient temperature and wind speed - calculate wind speed from components
• Find grid boxes closest to relevant PV stations

cosmopvcod

• Extract cloud information from COSMO data (specifically COD)
• Find grid boxes closest to relevant PV stations

gti2ghi_lookup_table

• Contains a NetCDF file with a LUT for transforming GTI to GHI, using a MYSTIC-based simulation

msgseviripvcod

• Extract COD data from MSG SEVIRI data
• Find pixels closest to relevant PV station

pvcal_invert2rad

• Main part of the software
• Calibrate PV systems
• Invert PV power onto tilted irradiance, optical depth and horizontal irradiance

pvdataprocess

• Data process functions to pre-process raw data from measurement campaigns
• Remove duplicates, resample