简介:Duetotheexistenceofthermaloffsets,globalsolarirradiancesmeasuredbypyranometersaresmallerthanactualvalues,anderrorsarelargerinthedaytime.Untilnow,thereisnouniversally-recognizedcorrectionmethodforthermaloffseterrors.Therefore,itisimperativetoidentifyaconvenientandeffectivecorrectionmethod.Fivecorrectionmethodswereevaluatedbasedonthedatameasuredfromafieldexperimentfrom23Januaryto15November,2011.Resultshaveshown:1)Temporalvariationcharacteristicsofthermaloffsetsinthefourtestedpyranometersareconsistent.2)Amongthefivemethods,non-dimensionalquantitymethodissuggestedforusetocorrectthermaloffsets,becauseitisconvenientandnomodificationofinstrumentsisrequired.Ifcollocatednetlongwaveradiationandwindspeeddataareavailableandtheiruncertaintiesaresmall,thehistoricalsolarradiationdatasetscanalsobecorrected.Andcorrectioneffectsbythemethodarebetter.