CAMS Radiation Client

A Python client for the CAMS radiation service.

From the website:

Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) radiation service provides time series of Global, Direct, and Diffuse Irradiations on horizontal surface, and Direct Irradiation on normal plane (DNI) for the actual weather conditions as well as for clear-sky conditions. The geographical coverage is the field-of-view of the Meteosat satellite, roughly speaking Europe, Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Middle East (-66° to 66° in both latitudes and longitudes). Time coverage is 2004-02-01 up to 2 days ago. Data are available with a time step ranging from 1 min to 1 month. The number of automatic or manual requests is limited to 40 per day.

• Copernicus main page is available here
• The service main page is available here
• For info about the API, see here
• For exampe scripts, see here

The repo contains the main module and two example notebooks, illustrating how to query radiation data and how to obtain PV power production results through pvlib.

note: CAMS radiation data are in $wh/m^2$, but libraries such as pvlib expect inputs in terms of power (for a number of good reasons), therefore it is necessary to scale the data when working with timesteps different than one hour.

Dependencies

• pandas