Description of solar radiation measurement at solarradiation.de

Description of solar radiation measurement

Solar radiation sensor CMP3
placed on top of roof

The global solar radiation measurement is performed
using a pyranometer CMP3 manufactured by KIPP & ZONEN.
This is a second class device according to WMO and ISO 9060.
A calibrated preamplifier made by ThiesClima conditions
the output voltage of the 64 thermocouples.
An embedded system NetDCU8 of F&S Elektronik Systeme
running Linux performs sampling and scaling of solar radiation.
Starting with the morning twilight until end of evening twilight
every 5 minutes solar radiation data is uploaded to this
internet server.

Geographical location of solar radiation measurement

Located in Rosdorf near Göttingen, Germany
Longitude 9° 54' 10" E, Latitude 51° 30' 36" N