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Yu Xie is an academic researcher from National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Environmental science & Solar irradiance. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 55 publications. Previous affiliations of Yu Xie include Texas A&M University & University of California, San Diego.
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The National Solar Radiation Data Base (NSRDB)
TL;DR: The National Solar Radiation Data Base (NSRDB) as discussed by the authors is a publicly open dataset that has been created and disseminated during the last 23 years, consisting of solar radiation and meteorological data over the United States and regions of the surrounding countries, and it provides solar irradiance at a 4-km horizontal resolution for each 30-min interval from 1998 to 2016 computed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) Physical Solar Model (PSM) and products from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Geostationary Oper
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CERES Edition-2 Cloud Property Retrievals Using TRMM VIRS and Terra and Aqua MODIS Data—Part I: Algorithms
Patrick Minnis,S. Sun-Mack,David F. Young,Patrick W. Heck,Donald P. Garber,Yan Chen,Douglas A. Spangenberg,Robert F. Arduini,Qing Z. Trepte,William L. Smith,J. K. Ayers,Sharon Gibson,Walter F. Miller,Gang Hong,Venkatesan Chakrapani,Y. Takano,Kuo-Nan Liou,Yu Xie,Ping Yang +18 more
TL;DR: This paper documents the CERES Edition-2 cloud property retrieval system used to analyze data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Visible and Infrared Scanner and by the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectrometer instruments on board the Terra and Aqua satellites covering the period 1998 through 2007.
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Best Practices Handbook for the Collection and Use of Solar Resource Data for Solar Energy Applications: Second Edition
Alessandro Betti,Philippe Blanc,Mathieu David,Yves-Marie Saint-Drenan,Anton Driesse,Janine Freeman,Rafael Fritz,Christian A. Gueymard,Aron Habte,Jing Huang,Andreas Kazantzidis,Jan Kleissl,Carmen Köhler,Tomas Landelius,V. Lara-Fanego,Philippe Lauret,Elke Lorenz,Luis Cuadrado Martin,Mark Mehos,Richard Meyer,Daryl Meyers,Kristian Pagh Nielsen,Richard Perez,Carlos M. Fernández Peruchena,Jesús Polo,David Renné,Lourdes Ramirez,Jan Remund,J. A. Ruiz Arias,Manajit Sengupta,Manuel Silva,David Spieldenner,Thomas Stoffel,Marcel Suri,Stefan Wilbert,S. Wilcox,Frank Vignola,Ping Wang,Yu Xie,Luis F. Zarzalejo +39 more
- 01 Dec 2017
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present detailed information about solar resource data and the resulting data products needed for each stage of a solar energy project, from initial site selection to systems operations.
CERES MODIS Cloud Product Retrievals for Edition 4—Part I: Algorithm Changes
Patrick Minnis,S. Sun-Mack,Yan Chen,Fu-Lung Chang,Christopher R. Yost,William L. Smith,Patrick W. Heck,Robert F. Arduini,Sarah T. Bedka,Yuhong Yi,Gang Hong,Zhonghai Jin,David Painemal,Rabindra Palikonda,Benjamin R. Scarino,Douglas A. Spangenberg,Rita A. Smith,Qing Z. Trepte,Ping Yang,Yu Xie +19 more
TL;DR: More accurate interpretation of the CERES radiation measurements has resulted from the use of the Ed4 cloud properties, and the average properties are compared with those from other algorithms and the differences between individual reference data and matched Ed4 retrievals are explored.
Building the Sun4Cast System: Improvements in Solar Power Forecasting
Sue Ellen Haupt,Branko Kosovic,Tara Jensen,Jeffrey K. Lazo,Jared A. Lee,Pedro A. Jiménez,James Cowie,Gerry Wiener,Tyler McCandless,Matthew A. Rogers,Steven D. Miller,Manajit Sengupta,Yu Xie,Laura M. Hinkelman,Paul Kalb,John Heiser +15 more
TL;DR: A team of researchers from the public, private, and academic sectors partnered to develop and assess a new solar power forecasting system, Sun4Cast, focused on improving decision-making for utilities and independent system operators, ultimately resulting in improved grid stability and cost savings for consumers.