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NOAA NCDC database of GSOD data has daily rainfall that is useful for determining soling rates based on Addie Kimber's dynamic soiling model. There used to be an ftp site, but I didn't look too hard for it.
Is there a chance that some one from SunPower, like @cedricleroy or @anomam , could dig through the pvlife github repo and extract the gsod code and add it to iotools - or post it to a gist so that someone else can work it into shape for pvlib.iotools?
thanks!
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cwhanse commentedon Mar 1, 2019
Nit - that's NOAA database, not NREL. The link is correct.
wholmgren commentedon Mar 1, 2019
If it's already useful for PV modelers that's fine with me. I am not picky about what goes into
iotoolsbut I don't want it to be a dumping ground for random weather data. Unless I missed something GSOD does not have irradiance or aerosol data, so it might be better placed in a package like Unidata's Siphonmikofski commentedon Mar 1, 2019
I only used it for daily rainfall in the soiling model. If there's a better source of rainfall data, then this probably isn't needed. If it's not useful for pvlib, I can open an issue for it at Siphon, if it's not already there.
mikofski commentedon Mar 1, 2019
I think the noaa ncdc isd also has global rainfall
AdamRJensen commentedon Nov 22, 2023
@kandersolar With the addition of #1767, is the GSOD dataset mentioned here still desirable? I'm unsure if they retrieve data from the same source.
Link to GSOD: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C00516
kandersolar commentedon Nov 22, 2023
I browsed through the list of available stations for Denmark as an example and saw only partial overlap with what ACIS makes available, so I think #1767 does not make this issue redundant.