TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Barry, James A1 - Böttcher, Dirk A1 - Grabenstein, Johannes A1 - Pfeilsticker, Klaus A1 - Herman-Czezuch, Anna A1 - Kimiaie, Nicola A1 - Meilinger, Stefanie A1 - Schirrmeister, Christopher A1 - Gödde, Felix A1 - Mayer, Bernhard A1 - Deneke, Hartwig A1 - Witthuhn, Jonas A1 - Hofbauer, Philipp A1 - Struck, Matthias T1 - Irradiance and atmospheric optical properties from photovoltaic power data: model improvements and first results T2 - EGU General Assembly 2021, Gather Online, 19-30 April 2021 N2 - Photovoltaic (PV) power data are a valuable but as yet under-utilised resource that could be used to characterise global irradiance with unprecedented spatio-temporal resolution. The resulting knowledge of atmospheric conditions can then be fed back into weather models and will ultimately serve to improve forecasts of PV power itself. This provides a data-driven alternative to statistical methods that use post-processing to overcome inconsistencies between ground-based irradiance measurements and the corresponding predictions of regional weather models (see for instance Frank et al., 2018). This work reports first results from an algorithm developed to infer global horizontal irradiance as well as atmospheric optical properties such as aerosol or cloud optical depth from PV power measurements. UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-54013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7581 DO - https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7581 PB - Copernicus GmbH ER -