Choose a source to import meteorological data
Model info:
Selected meteo station or pixel grid:
- Latitude, Longitude:
- Elevation (m):
- Timezone:
- Location:
- City:
- State:
- File_name:
Distance Meteo station - SketchUP model:
Notes:
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Skelion require diffuse and global hourly irradiation values to make SOF plots and calculate shading derate.
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If distance between Meteo station and model location is bigger than 20km it's recommended to use data from satellites.
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Closest TMY3 station weather file:
For a system location in the United States, reads TMY3 and TMY2 solar resource data from NREL's National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB).
For a system location outside of the United States, PVWatts reads solar resource data from one of the following databases, depending on the location:
- Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment Programme (SWERA)
- The ASHRAE International Weather for Energy Calculations Version 1.1 (IWEC)
- Canadian Weather for Energy Calculations (CWEC)
- 10k gridded data set from SolarAnywhere:
Only for locations within the United States.
- Satel-light file:
Select all years from 1996 to 2000 diffuse and global irradiation to generate the tsv file. Skelion will do a tmy file with the most representative months.