SoDa:: Services for Professionals in Solar Energy and Radiation

Case Studies - Ocean - Water

Dr. Lothar Paul is a researcher with the Neunzehnhain Ecology Station, a laboratory of the Technical University of Dresden in Germany. He is studying the climate change impacts on a drinking water reservoir system. He wrote "HelioClim data delivered by the SoDa Service were found to be close to our own measurements. It was very good. The reliability of the SoDa Service is excellent and it is very easy to use. However, the availability of the HelioClim database and of other databases changed during time and made our access difficult at times. We appreciated very much HelioClim when it was free. It would have been a good help to achieve our task. It is excellent, reliable, and provides long series of consistent values. However, it is too expensive; we cannot afford to suscribe to HelioClim data, nor to get conventional meteorological data". Date: April 2007.