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A comparative study on surface energy flux characteristics of photovoltaic power station in Gobi in summer

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We used the data of observational site in photovoltaic power plant (PV site) and reference site in summer 2020 to compare the characteristics of surface energy flux of PV site and Gobi underlying surface. We defined the photovoltaic virtual flux and calculated the proportion of photovoltaic power generation in the net radiation by using daily power generation and generating hours. The results show that the net radiation of PV site was larger than that of reference site throughout the day. Compared with the reference site, the sensible heat flux and latent heat flux of PV site increased by 6.0% and 53.5%, respectively. Sensible heat flux, soil heat flux, latent heat flux, and photovoltaic virtual flux accounted for 43.2%, 14.5%, 8.6%, and 6.1% of the net radiation, respectively. The sensible heat accounted for the largest proportion; the energy balance closure increased from 0.60 to 0.67 in the daytime.

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This study was financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFB1502800) and the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41875017).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Land Surface Process and Climate Change, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China

    Zhenchao Li, Yanyan Zhao, Jiang Ying, Peidu Li, Tangtang Zhang, Yujie Li & Xiaoqing Gao

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Yanyan Zhao, Jiang Ying, Peidu Li & Yujie Li

  3. Institute of Urban Meteorology, CMA, Beijing, 100089, China

    Jiaxi Yang

  4. Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Yong Luo

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ZL: conceptualization, methodology, software, validation, investigation, data curation, writing original draft, visualization, project administration, funding acquisition. YZ: validation, investigation, formal analysis, writing review and editing. JY: validation, investigation, resources. JY: validation, investigation. YL: validation, investigation. PL: validation, investigation. TZ: validation, investigation. YL: validation, investigation. XG: conceptualization, methodology, validation, investigation, resources, writing review and editing, supervision, project administration, funding acquisition.

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Li, Z., Zhao, Y., Yang, J. et al. A comparative study on surface energy flux characteristics of photovoltaic power station in Gobi in summer. Theor Appl Climatol 148, 1239–1247 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-022-04003-w

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