UK-wide Typical Meteorological Year Global Horizontal Irradiance Data for Photovoltaic Systems
Diane Palmer
Tom Betts
10.17028/rd.lboro.6945311.v1
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/dataset/UK-wide_Typical_Meteorological_Year_Global_Horizontal_Irradiance_Data_for_Photovoltaic_Systems/6945311
<p>TYPICAL METEOROLOGICAL YEAR DATA FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS IN THE UK</p>
<p>The data available for download comprises hourly TMY Global
Horizontal Irradiance values generated from the 2008-2016 decade for a 10 x 10
km resolution grid covering the UK and Northern Ireland. Global Horizontal
Irradiance in Wh/m^2.</p>
<p>The data is initially interpolated to each grid point from
UK Meteorological Office measured values. The TMY for each point is calculated
as follows:</p>
<ol><li><p>For each month in the year (i.e., Jan., Feb.,
March, etc.), the ten-year monthly mean of irradiance data is obtained for the
period 2004-2015.</p></li><li><p>The historic month that most closely matches the
ten-year mean for that month is identified i.e. the most “typical” month.</p></li><li><p>The hourly data values from the twelve typical
months are combined to create the typical year file. This might comprise e.g.
January from 2010, February from 2005, March from 2007 etc.</p></li></ol>
<p>This simple method has been shown to perform well compared
to other free-to-download TMY datasets.</p><p><br></p>
<p>If you make use of this data, please:</p>
<p>1. E-mail <a href="mailto:juice-centre@lboro.ac.uk">juice-centre@lboro.ac.uk</a> with details of your
employer/institution and a brief description of the project for which you
require the data.</p>
<p>2. Cite this journal paper in any publications: <a href="http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/10/2/181">http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/10/2/181</a> / <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/en10020181">https://doi.org/10.3390/en10020181</a>.</p><p><br></p>
<p>INSTRUCTIONS:</p>
<p>Open the kml file in Google Earth or software of your choice
and locate the grid point nearest to the location you are interested in. Look up the coordinates of the point in the
grid info file. Unzip folder and use Windows Explorer to open the csv
containing TMY data for your selected point.</p><p><br></p><p>Please note that the KML file is released under a CC BY-SA licence as described in the file.</p>
2018-08-08 14:22:09
photovoltaic
Kriging interpolation models
Solar radiation
typical meteorological year
TMY
global horizontal irradiance
Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering