pvlib.iotools.read_srml_month_from_solardat

pvlib.iotools.read_srml_month_from_solardat(station, year, month, filetype='PO')[source]

Request a month of SRML data from solardat and read it into a Dataframe. The SRML is described in [1].

Parameters:
  • station (str) – The name of the SRML station to request.
  • year (int) – Year to request data for
  • month (int) – Month to request data for.
  • filetype (string) – SRML file type to gather. See notes for explanation.
Returns:

data (pd.DataFrame) – One month of data from SRML.

Notes

File types designate the time interval of a file and if it contains raw or processed data. For instance, RO designates raw, one minute data and PO designates processed one minute data. The availability of file types varies between sites. Below is a table of file types and their time intervals. See [1] for site information.

time interval raw filetype processed filetype
1 minute RO PO
5 minute RF PF
15 minute RQ PQ
hourly RH PH

References

[1]University of Oregon Solar Radiation Measurement Laboratory http://solardat.uoregon.edu/