pvlib.iotools.read_cams

pvlib.iotools.read_cams(filename, integrated=False, label=None, map_variables=True)

Read a CAMS Radiation or McClear file into a pandas DataFrame.

CAMS Radiation and McClear are described in 1.

Parameters

• filename (str) – Filename of a file containing data to read.

• integrated (boolean, default False) – Whether to return radiation parameters as integrated values (Wh/m^2) or as average irradiance values (W/m^2) (pvlib preferred units)

• label ({'right', 'left}, default: None) – Which bin edge label to label time-step with. The default is ‘left’ for all time steps except for ‘1M’ which has a default of ‘right’.

• map_variables (bool, default: True) – When true, renames columns of the Dataframe to pvlib variable names where applicable. See variable VARIABLE_MAP.

Returns

• data (pandas.DataFrame) – Timeseries data from CAMS Radiation or McClear pvlib.iotools.get_cams() for fields

• metadata (dict) – Metadata available in the file.

See also

pvlib.iotools.parse_cams, pvlib.iotools.get_cams

References

1

CAMS solar radiation documentation

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