Skip to main content

Python wrapper for SMARTS2, Simple Model of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer of Sunshine

Project description

The smarts module contains functions for calling SMARTS: Simple Model of the Atmoshperic Radiative Transfer of Sunshine, from NREL, developed by Dr. Christian Gueymard.

SMARTS software can be obtained from: https://www.nrel.gov/grid/solar-resource/smarts.html

Users will be responsible to obtain a copy of SMARTS from NREL, honor it’s license, and download the SMART files into their PVLib folder.

This wrapper is shared under a BSD-3-Clause License, and was originally coded in Matlab by Juan Russo (2001), updated and ported to python by Silvana Ayala (2019-2020). Original Matlab wrapper was made for graduate studies at the University of Arizona, python porting by NREL.

Copyright (c) 2020 National Renewable Energy Laboratory, University of Arizona Board of Regents

Project details


Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

pySMARTS-0.0.1a0.tar.gz (34.4 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

pySMARTS-0.0.1a0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (18.7 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Python 2 Python 3

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page