pvlib.forecast.ForecastModel.cloud_cover_to_irradiance_liujordan

ForecastModel.cloud_cover_to_irradiance_liujordan(cloud_cover, **kwargs)[source]

Estimates irradiance from cloud cover in the following steps:

  1. Determine transmittance using a function of cloud cover e.g. cloud_cover_to_transmittance_linear()
  2. Calculate GHI, DNI, DHI using the pvlib.irradiance.liujordan() model
Parameters:cloud_cover (Series) –
Returns:irradiance (DataFrame) – Columns include ghi, dni, dhi