MIDC Features and Capabilities
NREL's Measurement and Instrumentation Data Center (MIDC) is collecting
irradiance and meteorological data from various stations in the United States. This data is available online and the site
has the following capabilities:
- Near real time graphical weather displays
- Near real time or daily data retrieval
- Extensive plotting capabilities
- ASCII or Zip downloading of data
- High resolution data, hourly averages, or daily statistics
- Customizable mini data display
- User customizable data/plots
- Math operations of two instrument output
- Math operations on one instrument and a user input value
- Preset calculations
- Third-component irradiance calculations
- Wind Roses
- Real time
- Daily
- Monthly
- Seasonal
- Yearly
- Solar Calendars
- Monthly Calendars that show thumbnail plots of daily irradiance
- Site Comparisons
- The ability to compare measurements from two or more stations
- Solar Position Calculators
- Calculate Solar Position and various other parameters using NREL's SOLPOS or SPA.
- Can be used for any location on the globe
- Data collection from any Campbell Scientific Datalogger (or similar logger)
- Ability to perform real-time merging of data from multiple loggers
- Ability to perform real-time post-processing of data
- Real-Time quality checks of data streams
- Scientists and technicians are notified via email of instrument problems
- Instrument meta data
- Serial numbers
- Descriptions
- Calibration History
- Photos
SRRL's Baseline Measurement System (BMS) on the MIDC has additional features:
- Instantaneous Data
- 3-Second Data Display (internal NREL access only)
- 3-Second Data Download (internal NREL access only)
- Additional instrument meta data
- Maintenance and Cleaning Log
- Data Quality Statements
- SRRL SkyCam
- Real time all sky snapshot
- Hourly historical snapshots
- Daily animations (using hourly historical snapshots)
- Yankee Total Sky Imager TSI-880
- Total and Opaque Cloud Cover percentages every 1 minute
- Total Sky Images every 10 minutes
- EKO SkyScanner MS-300LR
- Luminance and Radiance sky mapping every 15 minutes
- SRRL GPS Time (internal NREL access only)
- Java clock showing UTC time (updates every second)
- Ability to set remote users PC clock
- Outdoor Spectral Data
- Global 40-South Tilt and Direct Normal Spectroradiometers scanning every 5 minutes
- AOCS Derived Direct Normal spectra every 1 minute
- Monthly Quality Assessed Data
- BMS Data is quality assessed using DQMS
- Data files with flags
- Entire monthly data set in a ZIP file
- Custom ASCII data extraction of one or more measurement
- Output high resolution data
- Output 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60-minute averages
- Monthly Reports and Plots for each instrument
- Yearly Data and Plots for each instrument
- Cylinder and QCFit Plots
- Flag summary information
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