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4.2.3 Mechanical installation of shaded sensors (pyranometers and pyrgeometers)
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4.3 Installation of instruments for the measurement of direct beam radiation . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
4.3.1 General Considerations............................................. 39
4.3.2 Pre-installation checks and service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
4.3.3 Mechanical Installation ...................................... 40
4.4 Installation of Solar Tracking and Pointing Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5.0 Data Acquisition ................................................................ 44
5.1 Introduction ......... .................................................... 44
5.2 Set-up Considerations..................................................... 45
5.3 Standard Practices ....................................................... 45
5.4 Suggested Practices ...................................................... 45
6.0 Maintenance ... ............ ............. ................................ 47
6.1 Introduction ............................................................. 47
6.2 Daily Maintenance ........................................................ 47
6.3 Weekly Maintenance...................................................... 51
6.4 Long-term maintenance ................................................... 51
6.4.1 Semi-annual maintenance .......................................... 51
6.4.2 Annual maintenance ............................................... 52
7.0 Measurement of Aerosol Optical Depth.............................................. 53
7.1 Introduction ......... .................................................... 53
7.2 Instrument and Wavelength Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
7.2.1 Instrument Specifications ........................................... 54
7.2.2 Wavelength Specifications .......................................... 54
7.3 Data Acquisition.......................................................... 56
7.3.1 Sampling ............ ............ ................................ 56
7.3.2 Data Acquisition ................................................... 56
7.4 Calibration .................. ............................................ 56
7.4.1 General ......................................................... 56
7.4.2 On-site ‘Langley’ Style Procedures.................................... 57
7.4.2.1 Quality Assurance Procedures for Langley Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
7.4.2.2 Ratio-Langley Technique..................................... 58
7.4.2.3 Objective Algorithm ......................................... 60
7.4.3 Lamp Calibrations ................................................. 60
7.5 Maintenance ... ............ ............. ................................ 61
7.6 Archive Information ....................................................... 62
8.0 Radiometer Calibration........................................................... 64
8.1 Introduction ......... .................................................... 64
8.2 Pyrheliometer Calibration .................................................. 64
8.2.1 Absolute Cavity Radiometer/Pyrheliometer Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
8.2.2 Detailed procedures ............................................... 65
8.3 Pyranometer Calibration ................................................... 66
8.4 Pyrgeometer Calibration ................................................... 67
9.0 Radiation Data Reduction and Quality Assurance Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
9.1 Introduction ............................................................. 70
9.2 Standard Data Reduction Procedures ........................................ 70
9.2.1 Cavity Radiometer and Pyrheliometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
9.2.2 Pyranometers .................................................... 70
9.2.3 Pyrgeom eters .................................................... 71
9.3 Quality Assurance Techniques.............................................. 72
9.3.1 General testing procedures.......................................... 72
9.3.1.1 Redundancy ............................................... 72
9.3.1.2 Visual inspection............................................ 72
9.3.1.3 Limit Checking ............................................. 72
9.3.1.4 Conversion to solar time ..................................... 73
9.3.1.5 Scanning Minimum, Maximum, Standard Deviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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