Normal Incident Solar Radiation Atlas

Description

These data were originally downloaded from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) web site http://www.nrel.gov/gis/data_solar.html in units of kilowatt-hours per square meter per day and were converted to Langleys per day. 1 Langley per day = 1 calorie per square centimeter per day. or 1 Langley per day = 0.01163 kilowatt-hour per square meter per day. NREL has several different values of solar radiation available, the "global horizontal" data is what is represented by this service. "Global horizontal" means on a surface perpendicular to the radius -- i.e. a horizontal plate, wherever on the Earth you are measuring (or using) it. Please note NREL's disclaimer: http://www.nrel.gov/disclaimer.html

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original source https://data.doi.gov/harvest/object/d24cf01b-a437-4c9b-b112-34637839c92a
0 THREDDS OPeNDAP https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/dodsC/mows/sr
21 THREDDS NetCDF Subset Service https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/ncss/grid/mows/sr/dataset.html
0 This URL provides an NCDC climate and weather toolkit view of an OPeNDAP resource. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wct/wct-jnlp-beta.php?singlefile=https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/dodsC/mows/sr
21 This URL provides a standard OPeNDAP html interface for selecting data from this dataset. Change the extension to .info for a description of the dataset. https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/dodsC/mows/sr.html

Tags

  • solar-radiation
  • climate

Topics

  • Climate

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