Everything about Pyranometer

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: PyranometerA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Measurement of diffuse and plane of array irradiance by a combination of a pyranometer and an all-sky imagerInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Improved meteorological measurements from buoys and ships (IMET)The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Identification of clear skies from broadband pyranometer measurements and calculation of downwelling shortwave cloud effectsCited 433 times
5. Go sideways: Photovoltaic system performanceA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: AlbedometerA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Identification of clear skies from broadband pyranometer measurements and calculation of downwelling shortwave cloud effects

  Charles N. Long, Thomas P. Ackerman · 2000 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres · 433 citations

• Aerosol‐induced radiative flux changes off the United States mid‐Atlantic coast: Comparison of values calculated from sunphotometer and in situ data with those measured by airborne pyranometer

  P. B. Russell, J. M. Livingston, P. Hignett · 1999 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres · 158 citations

• Long‐term variations of UV‐B irradiance over Canada estimated from Brewer observations and derived from ozone and pyranometer measurements

  V. E. Fioletov, L. J. B. McArthur, J. B. Kerr · 2001 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres · 100 citations

• Determination of the thermal offset of the Eppley precision spectral pyranometer

  Martial Haeffelin, Seiji Kato, Amie M. Smith · 2001 · Applied Optics · 65 citations

• Estimating Cloud Type from Pyranometer Observations

  Claude E. Duchon, Mark S. O’Malley · 1999 · Journal of Applied Meteorology · 53 citations

• A New and Inexpensive Pyranometer for the Visible Spectral Range

  Miguel A. Martínez, José M. Andújar, Juan M. Enrique · 2009 · Sensors · 49 citations

• Recent Progress in Reducing the Uncertainty in and Improving Pyranometer Calibrations

  Daryl R. Myers, Thomas L. Stoffel, Ibrahim Reda · 2001 · Journal of Solar Energy Engineering · 44 citations

• A new approach to forecast solar irradiances using WRF and libRadtran models, validated with MERRA-2 reanalysis data and pyranometer measures

  A. Razagui, K. Abdeladim, K. Bouchouicha · 2021 · Solar Energy · 38 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Measurement of diffuse and plane of array irradiance by a combination of a pyranometer and an all-sky imager

  Niklas Benedikt Blum, Stefan Wilbert, Bijan Nouri · 2022 · Solar Energy · 23 citations

• Application of IR camera and pyranometer for estimation of longwave and shortwave mean radiant temperatures at multiple locations

  Dong-Seok Lee, Jae-Hun Jo · 2022 · Building and Environment · 16 citations

• Effects of cleaning interval of PV module and pyranometer on PV system performances in tropical climate of Indonesia

  Oo Abdul Rosyid, Yogie Probo Sibagariang, Adjat Sudrajat · 2025 · Results in Engineering · 14 citations

• Incorporating a Hyperspectral Direct-Diffuse Pyranometer in an Above-Water Reflectance Algorithm

  Thomas M. Jordan, Stefan G. H. Simis, Philipp M. M. Grötsch · 2022 · Remote Sensing · 9 citations

• A Low-Cost IoT-Enabled Pyranometer; Based on the Peltier Element

  Taha M, Omar M, Khan S · 2023 · International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology · 7 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Improved meteorological measurements from buoys and ships (IMET)Gennaro H. Crescenti · 1989
• Solar radiation at Parsons, West VirginiaJames H. Patric · 1979
• 📕Pyranographen bzw. Effektivpyranographen mit galvanisch erzeugter Thermosäule und ihre Erprobung in Berlin, Potsdam, Stockholm, Leningrad und BergenDietrich Sonntag · 1975
• 📕U.S. national processing center for GATEUnited States. Environmental Data Service. Center for Experiment Design and Data Analysis · 1977
• U.S. national processing center for GATEUnited States. Environmental Data Service. Center for Experiment Design and Data Analysis. · 1977
• 📕The melikeron--an approximately black-body pyranometerLoyal Blaine Aldrich · 1922
• 📕Pyranometer station for the assessment of solar energy influx in eastern New MexicoO. Dayle Sittler · 1979
• 📕On the use of the pyranometerC. G. Abbot · 1916

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