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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPeNDAP | Unknown | THREDDS OPeNDAP | Open resource |
| File Information | HTML | 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. | Open resource |
| THREDDS_NetCDF_Subset | HTML | THREDDS NetCDF Subset Service | Open resource |
| Original Metadata | XML | The metadata original source | Open resource |
| Viewer Information | Unknown | This URL provides an NCDC climate and weather toolkit view of an OPeNDAP resource. | Open resource |