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    A pyrheliometer is an instrument that can measure direct beam solar irradiance. Sunlight enters the instrument through a window and is directed onto a...
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    are used in meteorology to measure solar radiation as pyranometers, pyrheliometers and net radiometers. An actinometer is a chemical system or physical...
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    needed] methods and instruments, including his electric compensation pyrheliometer, invented in 1893, apparatus for obtaining a photographic representation...
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    A pyrheliometer, mounted on a solar tracker, is used to measure Direct Normal Irradiance (or beam irradiance)...
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  • active cavity radiometer is an electrically self-calibrating cavity pyrheliometer that can measure total and spectral solar irradiance. Radiometry Radiation...
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    made the first estimate of the solar constant. Using a very simple pyrheliometer he developed, he obtained a value of 1.228 kW/m2, close to the current...
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    Photovoltaic mounting system § Orientation and inclination Pyranometer Pyrheliometer Solar access Sun chart "Solar Resource Information". National Renewable...
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    Calibration of a pyranometer using a pyrheliometer, is the ISO standard for the calibration of a pyranometer using a pyrheliometer. "ISO 9846:1993 - Solar energy...
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    psychrometer humidity pycnometer fluid density pyranometer solar radiation pyrheliometer direct solar insolation pyrometer high temperatures quadrat percentage...
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  • Actinometer Photodiode Heat flux sensor Net radiometer Pyrgeometer Pyrheliometer Radiometer Sunlight Solar constant Sun path ISO9060 :2018 Classification...
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    the intensity of sunlight using a sunshine recorder, pyranometer, or pyrheliometer. To calculate the amount of sunlight reaching the ground, both the eccentricity...
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    Thermocouple Scintillating bolometer Pyrometer Radiometer Tasimeter Thermistor Pyrheliometer Infrared sensing in snakes The structure and function of a pit organ...
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    cavity of the sensor. They are also used widely in heat flux sensors and pyrheliometers and gas burner safety controls. The output of a thermopile is usually...
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    sensor, microphone (explosions, sonic booms, thunder), pyranometer/pyrheliometer/spectroradiometer (IR/Vis/UV photodiodes), rain gauge/snow gauge, scintillation...
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    1822 on the heat produced by the wetting of dry sand. He developed a pyrheliometer and made, between 1837 and 1838, the first quantitative measurements...
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    W.W. Campbell. To fight critics, Abbot would utilize balloons with pyrheliometers installed on them for measurements. He was the first scientist in America...
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    surface and solar flux density in the hemisphere above. pyrgeometer pyrheliometer Q vector In quasi-geostrophic and semi-geostrophic theory, a horizontal...
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    The equipment used was a pyroheliometer perhaps an alternate name for Pyrheliometer, an early device used to measure the Sun's energy output in ergs per...
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    irradiance values, which can then be compared to measurements from a pyrheliometer (for direct radiation) or pyranometer (for diffuse or global radiation)...
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  • identification ISO 9846 Solar energy -- Calibration of a pyranometer using a pyrheliometer ISO 9847 Solar energy -- Calibration of field pyranometers by comparison...
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    radiation, is an ISO standard for the classification of pyranometers and pyrheliometers. "ISO 9060:1990 Solar energy — Specification and classification of instruments...
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  • Abbot & Fowle) A study of body radiation (1928) An improved water-flow pyrheliometer and the standard scale of solar radiation (1932 with Abbot) Supplementary...
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    photometry, and actinometry. He proposed the designs of an actinometer and a pyrheliometer, which would be used by the Russian weather stations for many years...
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  • stone instrument platform built in front of it. An Abbot silver-disk pyrheliometer was placed on the platform outside the observatory tunnel to measure...
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  • tunnel passed sunlight to a spectrograph, an Ångström compensation pyrheliometer and a bolometer further in. In 1932 Bleksley was appointed as Junior...
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