Publications ( 9/01/08 )

Here is a list of the major publications made by the team. Abstracts are available for many of them.

Clear-sky Model - Vertical profile

Heliosat - Computing Solar Radiation using Satellite Images

HelioClim - Databases - Information System - Irradiation Data

ESRA (European Solar Radiation Atlas) - Other Atlases - Solar Radiation Climate

Linke Turbidity Factor

Data Processing - Quality Control - Interpolation

Calibration of Meteosat images - Miscellaneous

Publications about the SoDa Service

Oumbe A., Wald L., 2008. Simple parameterisations of vertical profile of solar irradiance in clear sky. Solar Energy, revised version, submitted April 2008. Text.

Mueller R.W., Dagestad K.F., Ineichen P., Schroedter M., Cros S., Dumortier D., Kuhlemann R., Olseth J.A., Piernavieja G., Reise C., Wald L., Heinnemann D., 2004. Rethinking satellite based solar irradiance modelling - The SOLIS clear sky module. Remote Sensing of Environment, 91, 160-174. Text.

Rigollier C., Bauer O., Wald L., 2000. On the clear sky model of the 4th European Solar Radiation Atlas with respect to the Heliosat method. Solar Energy, 68(1), 33-48. Text.
See also Geiger M., Diabaté L., Ménard L., Wald L., 2002. A Web service for controlling the quality of global solar irradiation. Solar Energy, 73, 6, 475-480. Text.

Lefèvre M., Wald L., Diabaté L., 2007. Using reduced data sets ISCCP-B2 from the Meteosat satellites to assess surface solar irradiance. Solar Energy, 81, 240-253. Text

Rigollier C., Lefèvre M., Wald L., 2004. The method Heliosat-2 for deriving shortwave solar radiation data from satellite images. Solar Energy, 77(2), 159-169. Text

The new method HELIOSAT-II. Report to the European Commission, April 2001. (plus some figures in Word file). See also the Report to the European Commission, June 2001.

Rigollier C., 2000. Vers un accès à une climatologie du rayonnement solaire : estimation de l'irradiation globale à partir d'images satellitales. Thèse de Doctorat en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication, Université Nice - Sophia Antipolis, 194 p.

Beyer H.-G., Costanzo C., Heinemann D., 1996. Modifications of the Heliosat procedure for irradiance estimates from satellite images. Solar Energy, 56, 3, p. 207-212.

Bauer O., 1996. Les échanges océan-atmosphère dans l'Atlantique subtropical nord-est : apports de Meteosat. Thèse de Doctorat, Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, 162 p.

Diabaté L., Wald L., 1995. An attempt to estimate the diffuse component of solar radiation on horizontal plane from satellite images. African Journal of Science and Technology, 11, 1, 39-44.

Wald L., Wald J.-L., Moussu G., 1992. A technical note on a low-cost high-quality system for the acquisition and digital processing of images of WEFAX type provided by meteorological geostationary satellites. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 13, 5, 911-916.

Obrecht D., 1990. Météorologie solaire et images satellitaires : cartographie du rayonnement solaire, détermination de l'albédo des sols et évaluation de l'ennuagement. Thèse de Doctorat en Sciences, Univ. Nice.

Moussu G., Diabaté L., Obrecht D., Wald L., 1989. A method for the mapping of the apparent ground brightness using visible images from geostationary satellites. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 10, 7, 1207-1225. Text

Diabaté L., 1989. Détermination du rayonnement solaire à l'aide d'images satellitaires. Thèse de Doctorat en Sciences, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 272 p.

Diabaté L., Moussu G., Wald L., 1989. Description of an operational tool for determining global solar radiation at ground using geostationary satellite images. Solar Energy, 42, 201-207. Text

Diabaté L., Demarcq H., Michaud-Regas N., Wald L., 1988. Estimating incident solar radiation at the surface from images of the Earth transmitted by geostationary satellites : the Heliosat Project. International Journal of Solar Energy, 5, 261-278. Text

Moussu G., 1988. Définition d'une méthodologie de détection de phénomènes dynamiques dans une chronique d'images, et son application à quelques études. Thèse de Doctorat en Sciences, Univ. Nice.

Michaud-Regas N., 1986. Mise en oeuvre et validation d'une méthode opérationnelle et automatique pour l'évaluation d'atlas solaires en Europe à l'aide de mesures satellitaires Meteosat (années 1983, 1984, 1985). Thèse de Doctorat, Univ. Paris VII, Paris, France.

Cano D., Monget J.-M., Albuisson M., Guillard H., Regas N., Wald L., 1986. A method for the determination of the global solar radiation from meteorological satellites data. Solar Energy, 37, 31-39. Text

Grüter W., Guillard H., Möser W., Monget J.-M., Palz W., Raschke E., Reinhardt R.E., Schwarzmann P., Wald L., 1986. Determination of solar radiation at ground level from images of the earth transmitted by meteorological satellites, Solar Energy R&D in the European Community, Series F, vol. 4: Solar radiation data from satellite images, D. Reidel Publishing Co. for the Commission of the European Communities, 100 pp.

Demarcq H., 1985. Applications de la télédétection infrarouge et visible en océanographie. Etude de la zone de dilution rhodanienne, observation des zones de production dans le golfe du Lion, et estimation de l'éclairement solaire global en Méditerranée occidentale. Thèse 3ème Cycle, Univ. Aix-Marseille II.

Cano D., 1982. Etude de l’ennuagement par analyse de séquences d’images de satellite. Application à l’évaluation du rayonnement solaire global au sol. Thèse de Doctorat, Ecole nationale supérieure des télécommunications, Paris, France.

Cros S., Albuisson M. , Lefèvre M., Rigollier C., Wald L., 2004. HelioClim: a long-term database on solar radiation for Europe and Africa. In Proceedings of Eurosun 2004, published by PSE GmbH, Freiburg, Germany, pp. (3)916-920, ISBN 3-9809656-4-3.Text.

Cros S., 2004. Création d’une climatologie du rayonnement solaire incident en ondes courtes à l’aide d’images satellitales (Design of an incident shortwave solar radiation climatology using satellite images). Thèse de Doctorat en Energétique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 13 septembre 2004, 157 pages.

Cros S., Lefèvre M., Albuisson M., Wald L., 2004. From meteorological satellite data to solar radiation climatological products: the HelioClim database. European Geophysical Union, 1st general assembly, Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol. 6, April 2004, EGU04-A-03853.

Lefèvre M., Cros S., Albuisson M., Wald L., 2004. Developing a database using Meteosat data for the delivery of solar radiation assessments at ground level. In Proceedings of the 23rd EARSeL Annual Symposium "Remote Sensing in Transition", 2-4 June 2003, Ghent, Belgium, Rudi Goossens editor, Milpress, Rotterdam, Netherlands, pp. 485-489.

Cros S., Mayer D., Wald L., 2004. The Availability of Irradiation Data. Report IEA-PVPS T2-04: 2004, International Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, 29 p.

Remund J., Wald L., Page, J., 2003. Chain of algorithms to calculate advanced radiation parameters. Proceedings of ISES Solar World Congress, 16-19 June 2003, Göteborg, Sweden.Text.

Lefèvre M., Rigollier C., Cros S., Wald L., 2002, Toward a solar climatological database: the HelioClim project. In Proceedings of 22nd EARSeL Annual Symposium "Geoinformation for European-wide integration", 4-6 June 2002, Prague, Czech Republic. Tomas Benes editor, Millpress, Rotterdam, Netherlands, pp. 223-228.

Lefèvre M., Rigollier C., Cros S., Albuisson M., Wald L., 2002, A shortwave radiation database to support GODAE-related activities. Proceedings of the International Symposium "En route to GODAE", 13-15 June 2002, Biarritz, France. Published by CNES, Toulouse, France, 2002, pp. 157-158. Text.

Diabaté L., Blanc Ph., Wald L., 2004, Solar radiation climate in Africa. Solar Energy, 76, 733-744. Text.

Cros S., Chriqi R., Albuisson M., Wald L., Dahman Saidi A., Bennouna M., 2004. Integration of Meteosat-derived data and digital terrain model into a GIS for local atlases of solar radiation. European Geophysical Union, 1st general assembly, Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol. 6, April 2004, EGU04-A-06543.

Page J., Albuisson M., Wald L., 2001. The European Solar Radiation Atlas: a valuable digital tool. Solar Energy, 71, 81-83. Text.

ESRA: European Solar Radiation Atlas, 2000. Fourth edition, includ. CD-ROM. Edited by J. Greif, K. Scharmer. Scientific advisors: R. Dogniaux, J. K. Page. Authors : L. Wald, M. Albuisson, G. Czeplak, B. Bourges, R. Aguiar, H. Lund, A. Joukoff, U. Terzenbach, H. G. Beyer, E. P. Borisenko. Published for the Commission of the European Communities by Presses de l'Ecole, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, France.

Solar Radiation Atlas of Africa, 1991. Edited by E. Raschke, R. Stuhlmann, W. Palz, T. C. Steemers. Published for the Commission of the European Communities by A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 155 p.

Remund J., Wald L., Lefevre M., Ranchin T., Page J., 2003. Worldwide Linke turbidity information. Proceedings of ISES Solar World Congress, 16-19 June 2003, Göteborg, Sweden. Text.

Diabaté L., Remund J., Wald L., 2003. Linke turbidity factors for several sites in Africa. Solar Energy, 75, 2, 111-119. Text.

Lefèvre M., Albuisson M., Ranchin T., Wald L., Remund J., 2004. Fusing ground measurements and satellite-derived products for the construction of climatological maps in atmosphere optics. In Proceedings of the 23rd EARSeL Annual Symposium "Remote Sensing in Transition", 2-4 June 2003, Ghent, Belgium, Rudi Goossens editor, Milpress, Rotterdam, Netherlands, pp. 85-91.

Wald L., Ranchin T., Lefèvre M., Albuisson M., Remund J., 2003, Increasing the spatial resolution of gridded data by fusion with other data sets. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Fusion, Cairns, Australia, 8-11 July 2003, pp. 168-173. Text.

Geiger M., Diabaté L., Ménard L., Wald L., 2002. A Web service for controlling the quality of global solar irradiation. Solar Energy, 73, 6, 475-480. Text.

Lefèvre M., Remund J., Albuisson M., Wald L., 2002. Study of effective distances for interpolation schemes in meteorology. European Geophysical Society, 27th General Assembly, Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol. 4, April 2002, EGS02-A-03429. Text.

Beyer H.-G., Czeplak G., Terzenbach U., Wald L., 1997. Assessment of the method used to construct clearness index maps for the new European solar radiation atlas (ESRA). Solar Energy, 61, 6, 389-397. Text.

Beyer H. G., Costanzo C., Reise C., 1995. Multiresolution analysis of satellite-derived irradiance maps - an evaluation of a new tool for the spatial characterization of hourly irradiance fields. Solar Energy, 55, 1, 9-20.

Cros S., Albuisson M., Wald L., 2006. Simulating Meteosat-7 broadband radiances at high temporal resolution using two visible channels of Meteosat-8. Solar Energy, 80, 3, 361-367, doi: 10.1016/j.solener.2005.01.012. Text.

Rigollier C., Lefèvre M., Blanc Ph., Wald L., 2002. The operational calibration of images taken in the visible channel of the Meteosat-series of satellites. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 19, 9, 1285-1293. Text.

Lefèvre M., Bauer O., Iehle A., Wald L., 2000. An automatic method for the calibration of time-series of Meteosat images. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 5, 1025-1045. Text.