7TH TRAINING IN SOLAR RADIATION - 21 to 25 JAN. 2019 - SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, FRANCE | Last update: Sept. 2018 |
Program - Organize your trip
Contact
Address: MINES ParisTech, 1 rue Claude Daunesse, 06904 Sophia Antipolis. Organize your trip
Lunches and catering fee: Access prices. Please note that your participation is validated as soon as your payment is received.
NB: A room has been booked for breaks and catering, where you will have the opportunity to display posters or flyers for your company / your project / your product. Feel free to bring any dissemination tool.
Lunches and catering fee
| Day | Price |
| Monday - optional | 30 € |
| Thuesday | 60 € |
| Wednesday | 60 € |
| Thursday | 60 € |
| Friday (master class) - optional | 260 € (160 € for students) |
Total fee: 470.00 € (or 370.00 € for students)
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Teachers
- Prof Philippe Blanc, MINES ParisTech
- Dr Alexandre Boilley, Transvalor S.A.
- Dr Mireille Lefèvre, MINES ParisTech
- Dr Mathilde Marchand, Transvalor S.A.
- Lionel Ménard, MINES ParisTech
- Prof Thierry Ranchin, MINES ParisTech
- Dr Yves-Marie Saint Drenan, MINES ParisTech
- Dr Claire Thomas, Transvalor S.A.
- Dr. Etienne Wey, Transvalor S.A.
Program
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Training language: English
Day 0 Monday January 21st, 2019 (OPTIONAL)
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Welcome coffee - Registration | | 14:30 – 16:30 | Basics in solar radiation - Practical work : sun position | Prof. Blanc | | 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee break | | 17:00 – 18:00 | Basics in GIS | Prof. Ranchin | | 18:00 | Adjourn day | |
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Day 1 Tuesday January 22nd, 2019
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Welcome coffee - Registration | | 09:00 – 10:30 | - Presentation of MINES ParisTech and Transvalor
- Round table: present yourself to the assembly
- 5 min introduction of posters of OIE PhD students
Distribution of the questionnaires that you will fill all training long | Teachers & Participants | | 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break – poster session | | 11:00 – 12:00 | Introduction of SoDa, HelioClim-3 and CAMS services | Dr Marchand | | 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch | | 14:00 – 15:30 | Site prospection – Atlas IRENA, Atlas PACA, Urban solar cadasters | Dr Wey | | 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break – poster session | | 16:00 – 17:00 | In-situ pyranometric measurements | Prof 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 | |
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Day 2 Wednesday January 23rd, 2019
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Practical work: Analyze cases of measurement failures | All teachers | | 10:00 – 10:30 | Supplementing ground data with meteorological analyses | Dr Boilley | | 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break – poster session | | 11:00 – 11:30 | Supplementing ground data with satellite data – Introduction | Dr Thomas | | 11:30 – 12:00 | Limitations of satellite-based methods | Dr Thomas | | 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch | | 14:00 – 15:00 | SoDa, HelioClim and Heliosat-2, CAMS radiation and CAMS McClear services | Dr Thomas | | 15:00 – 15:30 | Protocol for validating estimates of solar radiation from meteorological analyses or satellite images | Dr Lefèvre | | 15:30 – 16:00 | Calibration of a long term satellite irradiation time series | Dr Wey | | 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee break – poster session | | 16:30 – 17:00 | Analyze of long term solar resource – variability and representativeness (TMY) | Prof Blanc | | 17:00 | Adjourn day | |
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Day 3 Thursday January 24th, 2019
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Monitoring an installation with satellite irradiation data: the challenge to deal with high resolution spatial and temporal variability | Prof Blanc | | 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break – poster session | | 11:00 – 12:00 | Introduction to forecast methodologies | Dr Saint Drenan | | 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch | | 13:30 – 14:15 | Bank and projects financing – Questions and answers | Pierre Antoine Machelon | | 14:15 – 15:45 | New projects: - Spectral radiation values: UV, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, PV
- Heliosat-5: toward a global coverage of HelioClim
- NEXTGEOSS: access to gridded CAMS data
| Dr Thomas Lionel Ménard | | 15:45 – 16:45 | Round table: collect recommendations from attendees to improve the training and collect questionnaires | All Participants | | 16:45 | Adjourn day | |
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Day 4 Friday January 25th, 2019 (optional) - Parallel practical work sessions
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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 | |
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