What was wrong in your study? That there was increased longwave radiation.
Post the portion that was wrong. Post the refutation.
Like I said before I think it's cute that you believe you have discovered a major ommission in a published paper.
It's cute that you think lower albedo makes the area cooler.
Zhang & Xu (2020) used the MODIS Land
90 Surface Temperature and Emissivity Product Collection-6 to analyze 23 solar farms over the globe.
91 They concluded that both daytime and nighttime LST over the solar farm had decreased because
92 of the energy conversion to electricity and enhanced convective heating. Such notion of cooler
93 surfaces over solar farms, however, is not consistent with evidence from in-situ measurements.
94 Using in-situ measurements obtained from a variety of positions ranging from inside the soil to 95 6.3 m above the surface, Broadbent et al. (2019) showed that, during the daytime, the solar module
96 is significantly hotter than the ground of the reference site without solar panels except at noon
97 when the temperatures of both surfaces are similar. The upward longwave radiative flux measured
98 at 5.7 meters above the surface is indeed smaller over the solar farm than over the reference site,
99 suggesting that the longwave emissivity, not, LST, of the solar farm is smaller than its counterpart
100 of the original barren surface (i.e., the surface at the reference site). Broadbent et al. (2019) further
101 estimated the broadband longwave emissivity of the solar panel to be 0.83, in contrast to the
102 broadband emissivity of reference barren sand surface of 0.92.
The module is "significantly hotter than the ground of the reference site without solar panels"
And "the broadband longwave emissivity of the solar panel to be 0.83, in contrast to the broadband emissivity of reference barren sand surface of 0.92"
Hotter panels, lower emissivity. Weird.
