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Implement monthly snow loss model

See original GitHub issue

Interesting model for predicting monthly energy loss due to snow, from monthly quantities (snow total, plane-of-array insolation).

Photovoltaics and snow: An update from two winters of measurements in the SIERRA June 2011Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186627

Would be a nice addition to pvlib.snow

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abhisheksparikhcommented, Jun 8, 2021

I am willing to take this on as an opportunity to make my first contribution to pvlib. I am intending to start on 06/16.

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ColmBhandalcommented, Jan 24, 2022

@abhisheksparikh Are you still working on your PR? If you don’t have the time I can attempt to continue work on it.

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