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A Gridded Solar Irradiance Ensemble Prediction System Based on WRF-Solar EPS and the Analog Ensemble

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العنوان: A Gridded Solar Irradiance Ensemble Prediction System Based on WRF-Solar EPS and the Analog Ensemble
المؤلفون: Stefano Alessandrini, Ju-Hye Kim, Pedro A. Jimenez, Jimy Dudhia, Jaemo Yang, Manajit Sengupta
المصدر: Atmosphere, Vol 14, Iss 3, p 567 (2023)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: LCC:Meteorology. Climatology
مصطلحات موضوعية: solar irradiance ensemble forecasting, analog ensemble, rare events, ensemble calibration, Meteorology. Climatology, QC851-999
الوصف: The WRF-Solar Ensemble Prediction System (WRF-Solar EPS) and a calibration method, the analog ensemble (AnEn), are used to generate calibrated gridded ensemble forecasts of solar irradiance over the contiguous United States (CONUS). Global horizontal irradiance (GHI) and direct normal irradiance (DNI) retrievals, based on geostationary satellites from the National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) are used for both calibrating and verifying the day-ahead GHI and DNI predictions (GDIP). A 10-member ensemble of WRF-Solar EPS is run in a re-forecast mode to generate day-ahead GDIP for three years. The AnEn is used to calibrate GDIP at each grid point independently using the NSRDB as the “ground truth”. Performance evaluations of deterministic and probabilistic attributes are carried out over the whole CONUS. The results demonstrate that using the AnEn calibrated ensemble forecast from WRF-Solar EPS contributes to improving the overall quality of the GHI predictions with respect to an AnEn calibrated system based only on the deterministic run of WRF-Solar. In fact, the calibrated WRF-Solar EPS’s mean exhibits a lower bias and RMSE than the calibrated deterministic WRF-Solar. Moreover, using the ensemble mean and spread as predictors for the AnEn allows a more effective calibration than using variables only from the deterministic runs. Finally, it has been shown that the recently introduced algorithm of correction for rare events is of paramount importance to obtain the lowest values of GHI from the calibrated ensemble (WRF-Solar EPS AnEn), qualitatively consistent with those observed from the NSRDB.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2073-4433
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/14/3/567; https://doaj.org/toc/2073-4433
DOI: 10.3390/atmos14030567
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/100f5967fdca4b5490ec048095658671
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.100f5967fdca4b5490ec048095658671
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