Synthetic irradiance generation

The solarspatialtools.synthirrad package contains tools for generating synthetic irradiance timeseries and performing downscaling of timeseries. The package implements the following approaches:

cloudfield

Generate a simulated field of clouds from which spatially distributed timeseries of kt can be extracted. The field distributions are based on the properties of a time series of kt values. This is an implementation of the method described by Lave et al [1]. Some aspects of the implementation diverge slightly from the initial paper to follow a subsequent code implementation of the method shared by the original authors.

[1] Matthew Lave, Matthew J. Reno, Robert J. Broderick, “Creation and Value of Synthetic High-Frequency Solar Inputs for Distribution System QSTS Simulations,” 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), Washington, DC, USA, 2017, pp. 3031-3033, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366378.

Functions

get_timeseries_stats(kt_ts[, ...])	Get the properties of a time series of kt values.
cloudfield_timeseries(weights, scales, size, ...)	Generate a time series of cloud fields based on the properties of a time series of kt values.