SERI (Solar Energy Research Institute) Standard Broadband Format: A Solar and Meteorological Data Archival Format.

摘要

This manual describes a tape archival format appropriate for use with research-level solar radiation data. It serves both as a reference for users reading data recorded in the SERI Broadband Format (SBF) and as a guide to archiving solar, meteorological, and weather data in SBF. The manual's intended audience includes solar researchers, engineers, and climatologists as well as data processing professionals. A comprehensive list of solar, meteorological, and weather parameters is included in the format. In addition, the format's flexibility allows the user to add parameters and otherwise tailor the format to meet individual needs. SBF is particularly well suited to handling broadband solar radiation data. Also, instrument orientations (viewing angles), of special interest in solar applications, are given complete, unambiguous coverage in the header for each parameter. Standardized block lengths and detailed header information make it easy to read the data. A researcher recording in this format should be able to include all the basic information a user would require to interpret the data. Blanks and nulls are interspersed in the header and between data elements to make tape dumps readable. (ERA citation 13:035952)