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Title: | Effects of Aerosols and Clouds on the Levels of Surface Solar Radiation and Solar Energy in Cyprus | Authors: | Fountoulakis, Ilias Kosmopoulos, Panagiotis Papachristopoulou, Kyriakoula Raptis, Ioannis Panagiotis Mamouri, Rodanthi-Elisavet Nisantzi, Argyro Gkikas, Antonis Witthuhn, Jonas Bley, Sebastian Moustaka, Anna Buehl, Johannes Seifert, Patric Hadjimitsis, Diofantos G. Kontoes, Charalampos Kazadzis, Stelios |
Major Field of Science: | Engineering and Technology | Field Category: | Civil Engineering | Keywords: | Solar energy;Dust;Aerosol;Clouds;Cyprus | Issue Date: | 2-Jun-2021 | Source: | Remote Sensing, 2021, vol. 13, no. 12, articl. no. 2319 | Volume: | 13 | Issue: | 12 | Journal: | Remote Sensing | Abstract: | Cyprus plans to drastically increase the share of renewable energy sources from 13.9% in 2020 to 22.9% in 2030. Solar energy can play a key role in the effort to fulfil this goal. The potential for production of solar energy over the island is much higher than most of European territory because of the low latitude of the island and the nearly cloudless summers. In this study, high quality and fine resolution satellite retrievals of aerosols and dust, from the newly developed MIDAS climatology, and information for clouds from CM SAF are used in order to quantify the effects of aerosols, dust, and clouds on the levels of surface solar radiation for 2004–2017 and the corresponding financial loss for different types of installations for the production of solar energy. Surface solar radiation climatology has also been developed based on the above information. Ground-based measurements were also incorporated to study the contribution of different species to the aerosol mixture and the effects of day-to-day variability of aerosols on SSR. Aerosols attenuate 5–10% of the annual global horizontal irradiation and 15–35% of the annual direct normal irradiation, while clouds attenuate 25–30% and 35–50% respectively. Dust is responsible for 30–50% of the overall attenuation by aerosols and is the main regulator of the variability of total aerosol. All-sky annual global horizontal irradiation increased significantly in the period of study by 2%, which was mainly attributed to changes in cloudiness. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/22957 | ISSN: | 20724292 | DOI: | 10.3390/rs13122319 | Rights: | © by the authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Type: | Article | Affiliation : | National Observatory of Athens National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Cyprus University of Technology ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research Aristotle University of Thessaloniki World Radiation Center |
Publication Type: | Peer Reviewed |
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