Publications related to SoDa

Blanc P., B. Gschwind, L. Ménard, and L. Wald, 2011.
"Satellite-based estimation of surface solar irradiance".
June 21^st 2011, SPIE Newsroom. DOI: 10.1117/2.1201105.003735.
Databases of solar radiation values measured since 1985, which are of high interest in domains such as renewable energy, health, or architecture, are now freely available online.

Blanc P., B. Gschwind, M. Lefèvre, and L. Wald, 2011.
"The HelioClim Project: Surface Solar Irrradiance data for Climate Applications
Remote Sensing, vol. 3, doi:10.3390/RS3020343, pp. 343-361

Poster at the contribution to the state-of-the-art workshop COST ES1002 WIRE (Weather Intelligence for Renewable Energies), March 22-24^th 2011. click here to see the poster

Rigollier C., M. Lefèvre, L. Wald, 2004.
"The method Heliosat-2 for deriving shortwave solar radiation from satellite images"
Solar Energy 77, pp. 159-169, 2004.

Gschwind B., L. Ménard, T. Ranchin, L. Wald, P. Stackhouse, 2007.
"A proposal for a thesaurus for web services in solar radiation".
In Proceedings EnviroInfo 2007, O. Hryniewicz, J. Studzinski and M. Romaniuk (Eds), Shaker Verlag, vol. 1, pp. 135-142.

Gschwind B., Ménard L., Albuisson M., Wald L., 2006.
"Converting a successful research project into a sustainable service: the case of the SoDa web service"
Environmental Modelling and Software, 21, 1555-1561, 2006, doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2006.05.002.

Gschwind B., Ménard L., Albuisson M., Wald L., 2005.
"Three years of experience with the SoDa web service delivering solar radiation information: lessons learned and perspectives"
In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection, J. Hrebicek, J. Racek Eds, Part 1, pp. 95-102. Published by the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.

Wald L., M. Albuisson, C. Best, C. Delamare, D. Dumortier, E. Gaboardi, A. Hammer, D. Heinemann, R. Kift, S. Kunz, M. Lefèvre, S. Leroy, M. Martinoli, L. Ménard, J. Page, T. Prager, C. Ratto, C. Reise, J. Remund, A. Rimoczi-Paal, E. Van der Goot, F. Vanroy, and A. Webb, 2004.
"SoDa: a Web service on solar radiation."
In Proceedings of Eurosun 2004, published by PSE GmbH, Freiburg, Germany, pp. (3)921-927, ISBN 3-9809656-4-3.

Wald L., M. Albuisson, C. Best, C. Delamare, D. Dumortier, E. Gaboardi, A. Hammer, D. Heinemann, R. Kift, S. Kunz, M. Lefèvre, S. Leroy, M. Martinoli, L. Ménard, J. Page, T. Prager, C. Ratto, C. Reise, J. Remund, A. Rimoczi-Paal, E. Van der Goot, F. Vanroy, and A. Webb, 2002.
"SoDa: a project for the integration and exploitation of networked solar radiation databases".
In: Environmental Communication in the Information Society, W. Pillmann, K. Tochtermann Eds, Part 2, pp. 713-720. Published by the International Society for Environmental Protection, Vienna, Austria. See the presentation.

Rigollier C., M. Albuisson, C. Delamare, D. Dumortier, M. Fontoynont, E. Gaboardi, S. Gallino, D. Heinemann, M. Kleih, S. Kunz, G. Levermore, G. Major, M. Martinoli, J. Page, C. Ratto, C. Reise, J. Remund, A. Rimoczi-Paal, L. Wald, and A. Webb, 2000. "Exploitation of distributed solar radiation databases through a smart network: the project SoDa". EuroSun 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-22 June 2000.

Wald L., 2000. SODA: a project for the integration and exploitation of networked solar radiation databases. European Geophysical Society Meeting, XXV General Assembly, Nice, France, 25-29 April 2000.

A DRAFT is currently being corrected for an article to be published in ASR (Advances in Science and Research). It will gives interesting results concerning the statistics for HelioClim3v3 and HelioClim3v3-Mac Clear compared to ground station measurements.

First results contains in the DRAFT above has been presented in the conference: "Improving satellite-derived estimates of surface solar irradiance using a clear-sky model exploiting recent data sets of aerosols properties" EMS2012-154. 12th Annual Meeting EMS (European Meteorological Society), Lodz, Poland, 10-14 September 2012. The communication has been presented by Lucien Wald. Unfortunately, this conference will not deliver Proceedings.

The main article about MACC clear has been submitted on Jan. 30th 2013 at Atmospheric Measurement Techniques: McClear: a new model estimating downwelling solar radiation at ground level in clear-sky conditions

M. Sengupta, P. Gotseff, D. Myers, T. Stoffel, 2012. "Performance Testing Using Silicon Devices–Analysis of Accuracy", in: WREF, 2012: p. 4.

D.L. King, W.E. Boyson, B.R. Hansen, and W.I. Bower, 1998. "Improved low-cost solar irradiance sensors"

Vernay C., Blanc P. and S. Pitaval, 2013. "Characterizing measurements campaigns for an innovative calibration approach of the global horizontal irradiation estimated by HelioClim-3", Renewable Energy, Vol., Sept. 2013, pp. 339–347. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2013.01.049

Vernay C., Pitaval S. and P. Blanc, 2012. "Calibration of long-term global horizontal irradiation estimated by HelioClim-3 through short-term local measurement campaigns: extending of the results to European and African sites" World Renewable Energy Forum, Denver, United States (2012)

Ruiz-Arias J.A., 2009. Modelization of the Terrain's morphology Influence on the Solar Radiation Field at the Earth's surface. Doctoral Thesis (PhD) eq. 4.34, University of Jaé, April 2009, 202 p.

Erbs D.G., S.A. Klein and J.A. Duffie, 1982. "Estimation of the Diffuse Radiation Fraction for Hourly, Daily and Monthly-average Global Radiation", Solar Energy, Vol. 28, N°4, pp. 293-302.

Erbs, D.G., 1980. "Methods For Estimating the Diffuse Fraction of Hourly, Daily, and Monthly-Average Global Solar Radiation", Masters Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980.