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Solar radiation

by alecast » Tue May 10, 2022 2:50 am America/New_York

How can I get the average solar radiation of the latest 20 years for a determinate coordinate?
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Re: Solar radiation

by ORNL - mthornton » Tue May 10, 2022 9:18 am America/New_York

If your coordinate is in North America, the Daymet dataset https://daymet.ornl.gov/ provides gridded estimates of shortwave radiation; defined as: Incident shortwave radiation flux density in watts per square meter, taken as an average over the daylight period of the day for the time period 1980 - present. A single location can be extracted as a csv file from the dataset using the Single Pixel Extraction Tool https://daymet.ornl.gov/single-pixel/ .
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Re: Solar radiation

by alecast » Tue May 10, 2022 10:35 am America/New_York

Thanks for your feedback but I need the average montly solar radiation of the latest 20 years for a location in Europe.
There's a way to have this data?
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Re: Solar radiation

by ORNL - mthornton » Tue May 10, 2022 12:46 pm America/New_York

This site may provide the data you need: https://maps.nrel.gov/nsrdb-viewer/

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Re: Solar radiation

by ASDC - David W. » Tue May 10, 2022 1:36 pm America/New_York

The NASA POWER website also has solar radiation at the timescale and location you mentioned. https://power.larc.nasa.gov

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