Welcome to ASRC's Solar Radiation Server

An Eppley solar tracker mounted with an Eppley normal incidence pyroheliometer and a Li-Cor photometer. This instrument measures direct normal irradiance and illuminance. The photo was taken on the roof of the ASRC facility.

The Solar Radiation Group embodies one of several fields of study at ASRC. Within the Solar Radiation Group, three principal researchers conduct investigations into several diverse areas of interest:

Richard Perez

research into solar measurement and modeling, daylighting, photovoltaic applications, and satellite prediction.

Joe Michalsky

does the things Joe does

Lee Harrison

develops sensors, etc.

Things to make and do

Current conditions on the roof of ASRC

http://hog.asrc.cestm.albany.edu/

Latest GOES-8 picture, normalized and reduced to 512x220

http://lunch.asrc.cestm.albany.edu/~mcidas/area_e.html

Latest GOES-10 picture, normalized and reduced. Also picture of locally extracted and gridded file.

http://lunch.asrc.cestm.albany.edu/~mcidas/area_w.html

University of Geneva Group of Applied Physics

http://www.unige.ch/gap-e

Effective Load Carrying Capacity Map of the USA

http://lunch.asrc.albany.edu/~marek/elcc.gif

The National Renewable Energy Lab's Home Page

http://www.nrel.gov

Atmospheric Solar Radiation Group

Atmospheric Solar Radiation Group