pvcompare.era5.format_pvcompare

pvcompare.era5.format_pvcompare(ds)[source]

Format dataset to dataframe as required by the pvlib’s ModelChain.

The pvlib’s ModelChain requires a weather DataFrame with time series for - wind speed wind_speed in m/s, - temperature temp_air in C, - direct irradiation ‘dni’ in W/m² (calculated later), - global horizontal irradiation ‘ghi’ in W/m², - diffuse horizontal irradiation ‘dhi’ in W/m²

Parameters

ds (xarray.Dataset) – Dataset with ERA5 weather data.

Returns

Dataframe formatted for the pvlib.

Return type

pandas.DataFrame