6th training in solar radiation - 15-19 Jan. 2018 - Sophia antipolis, France

Last update: Jan. 2018

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Address: MINES ParisTech, 1 rue Claude Daunesse, 06904 Sophia Antipolis. Organize your trip

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Teachers

Pr. Philippe Blanc, MINES ParisTech
Dr. Mathilde Marchand, Transvalor S.A.
Pr. Thierry Ranchin, MINES ParisTech
Dr. Yves-Marie Saint Drenan, MINES ParisTech
Dr. Claire Thomas, Transvalor S.A.
Pr. Lucien Wald, MINES ParisTech
Dr. Etienne Wey, Transvalor S.A.

Program

Day 0 Monday 15^th January, 2018 (OPTIONAL)

14:00 – 14:30	Welcome coffee - Registration
14:30 – 16:30	Basics in solar radiation - Practical work : sun position	Pr P. Blanc
16:30 – 17:00	Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00	Basics in GIS	Pr T. Ranchin
18:00	Adjourn day

Day 1 Tuesday 16^th January 2018

08:30 – 09:00	Welcome coffee - Registration
09:00 – 10:30	Presentation of MINES ParisTech and Transvalor - "Ice breaker" – 5 min introduction of posters of OIE PhD students – Presentation of the mind map that they will be able to fill all training long.	All the teachers + PhD students + all the Participants
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break – poster session
11:00 – 12:00	Presentation of SoDa, CAMS services	Dr Mathilde Marchand
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Site prospection – Atlas IRENA, Atlas PACA, Urban solar cadasters	Dr Etienne Wey
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break – poster session
16:00 – 17:00	In-situ pyranometric measurements	Pr Philippe Blanc
17:00 – 17:30	Using existing in-situ pyranometric measurements
17:30 – 18:00	Using existing measuring stations from a nearby network
18:00	Adjourn day

Day 2 Wednesday 17^th January, 2018

09:00 – 10:00	Practical work: Analyze cases of measurement failures	Lucien Wald, Philippe Blanc, Yves-Marie Saint-Drenan, Benoit Tournadre, Claire Thomas, Mathilde Marchand, Etienne Wey, Loic Vallance
10:00 – 10:30	Supplementing ground data with meteorological analyses and satellite data – part 1	Pr Lucien Wald
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break – poster session
11:00 – 11:30	Supplementing ground data with meteorological analyses and satellite data – part 2	Dr Claire Thomas
11:30 – 12:00	Limitations of satellite-based methods	Dr Claire Thomas
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch
14:00 – 15:00	SoDa, HelioClim and Heliosat-2, CAMS radiation and CAMS McClear services	Dr Claire Thomas
15:00 – 15:30	Protocol for validating estimates of solar radiation from meteorological analyses or satellite images	Pr Lucien Wald
15:30 – 16:00	Calibration of a long term satellite irradiation time series	Dr Etienne Wey
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break – poster session
16:30 – 17:00	Analyze of long term solar resource – variability and representativeness (TMY)	Pr Philippe Blanc
17:00	Adjourn day

Day 3 Thursday 18^th January, 2018

09:00 – 10:00	Monitoring an installation with satellite irradiation data: the challenge to deal with high resolution spatial and temporal variability	Pr Philippe Blanc
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee break – poster session
10:30 – 11:30	Introduction to forecast methodologies	Dr Yves-Marie Saint Drenan
11:30 – 12:15	Bank and projects financing – Questions and answers	Amaury Schoenaeur
12:15 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Presentation of our innovations: who in the assistance would be interested in becoming a panel tester for each presented service ?	Dr Claire Thomas
15:30 – 16:30	Round table: debriefing of the mind map: collect recommendations from attendees to improve the training. Distribution of questionnaires and feedback	All the Participants
16:30	Adjourn day

Day 4 Friday 19^th January, 2018 (optional) - Parallel practical work sessions

	Dr Etienne Wey	Pr Philippe Blanc
09:00 – 12:30	QGIS discovery and use	Resource assessment / management of technical data in Maltab (Prerequisite: MatLab knowledge)
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 16:00	QGIS discovery and use	Resource assessment / management of technical data in Maltab (Prerequisite: MatLab knowledge)
16:00	Adjourn day