any of various instruments for measuring solar radiation, as by use of a bolometer or thermopile
Also called: pyranometer
Examples of 'pyranometer' in a sentence
pyranometer
The data are compared to measurements with a pyranometer.
Philipp Mehne, Dominik Leclerc, Peter Woias 2019, 'Energy Income Estimation for Solar Cell Powered Wireless Sensor Nodes', Proceedingshttp://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/2/13/1514. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A pyranometer was also installed to measure solar radiation levels.
Víctor Echarri, Almudena Espinosa, Carlos Rizo 2017, 'Thermal Transmission through Existing Building Enclosures: Destructive Monitoringin Intermediate Layers versus Non-Destructive Monitoring with Sensors on Surfaces',Sensorshttps://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/12/2848. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The time series of the global horizontal irradiance was measured using a thermopile pyranometer at the same site.
Cristian Crisosto, Martin Hofmann, Riyad Mubarak, Gunther Seckmeyer 2018, 'One-Hour Prediction of the Global Solar Irradiance from All-Sky Images Using ArtificialNeural Networks', Energieshttps://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/11/2906. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)