Database climate data

The archive of climate data contains information, used by the program, which are related to the location of the photovoltaic system: irradiance, temperature, geographic coordinates, time zones. BlueSol comes with a default archive of climate data which includes:

- Data NASA-SSE for about 1400 locations worldwide

- Data ENEA for Italy

- Data UNI 10349 for Italy

This database can however be extended by the user, adding new locations and sources of climate data.

The Search location command allows you to select the location places depending on the choice the country and the data source of radiation.

The toolbar proposes a list of countries for the sources of climatic data currently selected. The first step is the selection of the source of climatic data, then appears the countries for which the data are available. All locations, available for the selected country, will be displayed.

The location can be selected by scrolling through the list of locations, or entering the name in the search box location. Writing the Location, the list scrolls proposing the location that is closer to the text that you are typing. Usually just type a few characters to see displayed the name you search.

Once you have selected the location, the window proposes the values of irradiance per day (average monthly) on a horizontal plane, with respect to diffuse and global irradiance. In addition, values are proposed average annual total irradiance, measured on a horizontal plane, the components of direct, diffuse and global.

If the maximum and minimum temperatures of the locations were not known, these values must be left zero. In this case the program assumes, in the calculations of the verifications on the tensions produced by photovoltaic modules, that the minimum and maximum values reached by photovoltaic modules are defined in project settings (default values are -10° and +70° C).