pvlib.iotools.read_psm3¶
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pvlib.iotools.
read_psm3
(filename)[source]¶ Read an NSRDB PSM3 weather file (formatted as SAM CSV). The NSRDB is described in [1] and the SAM CSV format is described in [2].
Parameters: filename (str) – Filename of a file containing data to read. Returns: - headers (dict) – metadata from NREL PSM3 about the record, see
pvlib.iotools.parse_psm3()
for fields - data (pandas.DataFrame) – timeseries data from NREL PSM3
References
[1] NREL National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) [2] Standard Time Series Data File Format - headers (dict) – metadata from NREL PSM3 about the record, see