The Fast All-sky Radiation Model for Solar applications (FARMS) is used to compute cloudy irradiance.
- Create a new environment:
conda create --name farms
- Activate directory:
conda activate farms
- Install farms:
pip install NREL-farms
orconda install nrel-farms --channel=nrel
- from home dir,
git clone https://github.com/NREL/farms.git
- enter github username
- enter github password
- from home dir,
- Create
farms
environment and install package - Create a conda env:
conda create -n farms
- Run the command:
conda activate farms
- cd into the repo cloned in 1.
- prior to running
pip
below, make sure the branch is correct (install from master!) - Install
farms
and its dependencies by running:pip install .
(orpip install -e .
if running a dev branch or working on the source code)
- Create a conda env:
- Create
Yu Xie, Manajit Sengupta, Jimy Dudhia, "A Fast All-sky Radiation Model for Solar applications (FARMS): Algorithm and performance evaluation", Solar Energy, Volume 135, 2016, Pages 435-445, ISSN 0038-092X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2016.06.003. Science Direct Link.