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C A M S Impact of dust on Solar farm productivity

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U s e c a s e

• A serious problem for solar power plants is desert dusts

• It obscures the sun and makes the mirrors dirty thereby reducing the efficiency of the panels.

• This impacts the productivity of solar power plants.

• CAMS Aerosol forecasts service “Global forecasts of aerosol concentrations – dust” gives indication of desert dust movements.

• This service provides daily global forecasts up to 5 days of aerosol concentrations.

UserUptake • Go to CAMS catalogue (http://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/catalogue# )

• Select “Global forecasts of aerosol concentrations - dust (3 bins)”

• Connect to the ECMWF portal: http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/

• Go to CAMS Near real time product.

• Select Dust Aerosol Optical Depth at 550nm

• Retrieve Netcdf file

• Visualise the results in NetCDF viewer

H a n d s - o n d e m o

AtmosphereMonitoring • CAMS Near-real-time

• Dust Aerosol Optical Depth at 550nm at ground level

D u s t A e r o s o l f o r e c a s t d a t a

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V i d e o 2 : G e t d u s t d a t a f r o m E C M W F p o r t a l

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N e t C D F v i e w e r s

• Panoply: – Panoply is developed by the NASA

– It plots geo-referenced arrays from netCDF, HDF, GRIB, and other datasets

– Panoply is a cross-platform application that runs on Macintosh, Windows, Linux and other desktop computers.

– Download link: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/

• QGIS: – QGIS is a Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS).

– QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).

– It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows and Android

– It supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.

– Download link: https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html

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