Definitions for "ERSATZ"
German term for replacement player
"substitute, imitation"
Literally "inferior substitute", the 222 measurement sites in the 1952-1975 SOLMET/ERSATZ solar & meteorological hourly network that did not measure solar radiation. The solar radiation for these sites was modeled from cloud cover data and other information. The SOLMET/ERSATZ network has been replaced by the 1961-1990 National Solar Radiation Data Base.