Research Projects
COST Action ES1002 : WIRE - Weather Intelligence for renewable energies
Due to our commitment in solar energy research projects, our know-how is always up to date. Here you can find information on research projects with Meteotest's participation.
Current projects
COST Action ES1002 - "WIRE: Weather Intelligence for renewable energies"
launched and chaired by Meteotest. Thanks to this cooperation, Meteotest is located in the centre of all European research activities in the field of Production forecast for wind and solar energy. More information under www.wire1002.ch.
IEA-SHC Task 36 - Solar Resource Knowledge Management
This is a 5 year research project of the Solar Heating and Cooling (SHC) Program of the International Energy Agency (IEA). The project focuses on the development of data quality control measures, validation and availibility of solar data as well as short term forecasts of solar irradiation.
METEOTEST is an important partner in this project for forecasting global radiation at selected locations, global radiation measurement data in Switzerland as well as validation of modeling data in Switzerland.
Completed projects
MESoR - Management and Exploitation of Solar Resource Knowledge
MESoR was a research project within the 6th European Framework Program of the European Union. The basic goal was to coordinate European research activity in the field of solar resources and to improve Europe's position in international cooperations with industry and research.
Through our long expertise with solar data and the development of the global climatological database METEONORM, METEOTEST was an important partner in this project.
- MESoR Project - Project website
- MESoR Net - Prototype of a web-based broker which guides the user to the different source
SODA
METEOTEST was an important partner and work package leader of the EU research project SODA, which was a part of the Information Society Technology Program. Its aim was to allow customers to more easily obtain solar data. The radiation data as well as the utilized software is distributed on a number of computers accross Europe. The central server (at the Joint Research Center in Ispra, I) serves as an interface to the customer (via internet). METEOTEST also houses a data and algorithm server (e.g. for long wave radiation as well as global radiation on inclined surfaces). The exchange of the data happens in the background in XML format.
- Project website: www.soda-is.org
Publications
- Remund and Müller, 2011, Solar Radiation and Uncertainty Information of meteonorm 7, ISES 2011, Kassel, Germany, 28.Aug-2.Sept 2011 PDF
- Remund and Müller, 2010, Trends in global radiation between 1950 and 2010, Eurosun 2010, Graz, Austria, 28. Sept-1. Oct 2010 PDF
- Müller and Remund, 2010, Advances in radiation forecast based on regional weather models MM5 and WRF, 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Valencia, Spain, 6.-10. September 2010 fileadmin/user_upload/Sonnenenergie/pdf/25thEUPVSEC_4BV.1.75.pdfPDF Poster
- Lorenz E. et al., 2009, Benchmarking of different approaches to forecast solar irradiance, 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 21.-25. September 2009 PDF
- Remund J., 2008 Quality of Meteonorm Version 6.0 Proceedings of 10th World Renewable Energy Conference, 19-25th July 2008, Glasgow (UK) PDF
- Remund J., Salvisberg E., Kunz S., 1998, Generation of hourly shortwave radiation data on tilted surfaces at any desired location Solar Energy 62: 331-334 PDF
- Remund J., Wald L., Page J., 2003, Chain of algorithms to calculate advanced radiation parameters. Proceedings of the ISES solar world congress 2003, Göteborg (SWE) CD-ROM Paper P6 38. PDF
- Remund J. et al., 2003, Worldwide Linke turbidity information Proceedings of the ISES solar world congress 2003, Göteborg Sweden CD-ROM Paper O6 18. PDF
- Wald L. et al., 2002 SoDa: a project for the integration and exploitation of networked solar radiation databases In: Environmental Communication in the Information Society, W. Pillmann, K. Tochtermann Eds. Part 2, pp. 713-720. Published by the International Society for Environmental Protection, Vienna, Austria PDF
- Lefèvre, Remund, Albuisson, Wald ,2002, Study of effective distances for interpolation schemes in meteorology Annual Assembly, European Geophysical Society, Nice, April 2002. Geophysical Research Abstracts 4: EGS02-A-03429 PDF
