Getting albedo from MODIS for energy yield modeling

[Christopher Valdivia]

Hello all,

I am looking for sources of albedo that are suitable for solar power energy yield modeling.

I've had a look at MODIS and I believe MCD43A3 v6.1 (https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mcd43a3v061/) would be a suitable product for this purpose. However, they provide black sky albedo and white sky albedo which need to be converted into a blue sky albedo before it can be used for modeling purposes. However, I am not sure how to do this conversion. Is anyone aware of information (or even code) showing how to do this? Sorry for my ignorance, but I've never used this type of data before and I haven't found the answers I've been looking for elsewhere yet.

Additionally, are there other sources for albedo that you could suggest? I'm looking for sources for locations around the globe.

Thanks a lot for any information or experience you can share! Hopefully it will be helpful for a broader audience as well.

Chris

[Will Hobbs]

There might be some useful information here: https://github.com/NREL/nsrdb/tree/main/nsrdb/albedo.

Will

[Christopher Valdivia]

Thanks Will! That's super helpful. I wasn't aware of this. I'll be checking it out.

Cheers,

Chris

[Brighton Mabasa]

Hello Chris,

We wrote a conference paper; it will answer most of the questions that you raised.

Solcat , GFS are also good sources of albedo data. 

Kind Regards,

Brighton 

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[Christopher Valdivia]

Thanks Brighton! Your paper and suggestions looks like they will be helpful.

Much appreciated,

Chris