Energy Meteorology

Solar Energy

radiation map
Map of mean daily sums of radiation for Europe (April 2001)

Improvement of Methods for Irradiance Derivation

  • statistical analysis
  • physical models (calculation of radiative transfer through the atmosphere)

Irradiance Data for Solar Energy Applications

  • Satel-Light : European database of daylight and solar radiation
  • PV-SAT : Remote performance check for grid connected PV-systems using satellite data

Short Term Forecasting of Solar Irradiance

  • determination of motion vector fields with statistical methods
  • datacompression with Principal Component Analysis
  • neural networks

Structure Analysis of Satellite Images

Contact

Dr. Detlev Heinemann
Department of Energy and Semiconductor Research
Institute of Physics - University of Oldenburg
D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany
Tel: +49 441 - 798-3543
Fax: +49 441 - 798 3326
e-mail: detlev.heinemann@uni-oldenburg.de