NEW FEATURES:
IMPROVEMENTS:
BUG FIXES:
We have improved the frequency of our service for sites in GOES satellite regions (Americas and Pacific), delivering new data predictions every 10 minutes. Before, we were only delivering updates every 30 minutes. With the new data infrastructure, we were also able to significantly shorten the delay and the forecast service is now faster.
We have extended our nowcast model in the GOES satellite region and from now users of Solargis Forecast service can receive updates for any site in North and South America and Pacific islands. A new nowcasting algorithm was used for these regions which, among other upgrades, improves cloud motion extrapolation and provides nowcasts with reduced uncertainty.
After several model improvements across our data calculator chain, the accuracy of historical time series for the GOES region (covering Americas and Pacific islands) has been improved. The main changes are:
Due to this series of improvements, small variations in data values are expected under this new model, in comparison to the Solargis older models used in climData deliveries. Updated bias and RMSD statistics are published in our interactive maps here.
Possibility to change the owner of Prospect projects. Now each Prospect user can transfer his projects to his colleagues within the same Customer account (Company).
Evaluate Professional plan includes new parameters:
WG - Wind gusts at surface [m/s]
PREC - Precipitation total [kg/m²]
Now, to increase the likelihood of finding better candidate months for TMY Pxx (P90, P75, etc.), the original data is split into smaller chunks of 15 days, and many candidate months are generated by mutual combinations of these smaller data chunks. The methodology for TMY P50 remains unchanged.
We have released the minor update of SG - 1.10.4:
Prospect
Notification about available data between 60° and 65° latitude.
Copy to clipboard feature has been added to geographical coordinates
Customer Admin
Customer invitation process has been improved
TMY data now available via API in 4 different output format types: SOLARGIS_JSON, SOLARGIS_CSV, SAM, HELIOSCOPE.