IEA-Task-36

Overview

The IEA SHC Task 36 "Solar Resource Knowledge Management" is a five-year task initiated by IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme Implementing Agreement.

Scope of Project

This task focuses on the development, validation, and access to solar resource information derived from surface-based and satellite-based platforms. The task will investigate benchmarking and data quality assessment procedures for data products and validation data sets, examine means by which the data can be made easily available to users through various web-based hosting schemes, and conduct studies on improving the input data sets and algorithms from which satellite-derived products are produced, including the investigation of short term forecasting and past and future climatic variability of the solar resource.

More information at the IEA-Task-36 Web Site...