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POWER Dav tool showing annual meteorology data

POWER

Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources

The goal of the NASA Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project is to provide solar and meteorological data from satellite observations and models to help worldwide users respond to challenges and societal needs. 

POWER facilitates the use of NASA Earth science data on a global scale with measurements from the early 1980s to current, near-real time data. To this end, POWER has reformatted and disseminated to the public radiative fluxes data – including solar – from several NASA sources, such as the Surface Radiation Budget dataset and the Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) sensor. These data are available via a user-friendly, geographic information system-enabled web data portal at the native resolution of each data product. 

POWER has done the same for consistent meteorological data from NASA assimilation models including MERRA-2 and other NASA efforts including the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) platform and Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) product.

The POWER Project improves the accessibility and usage NASA Earth Observations (EO) supporting community research in three focus areas: 

  1. renewable energy development
  2. building energy efficiency
  3. agroclimatology applications

The POWER project supersedes the NASA Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy (SSE) data archive, which was retired on June 13, 2018. All SSE capabilities have been incorporated into the POWER web portal, offering expanded solar and meteorological data parameters along with significantly enhanced data access and retrieval capabilities.

Principal Investigator

Paul Stackhouse

Data Centers

ASDC
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Related Instruments

Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Seven CERES instruments on five satellites (six currently operational) provide Earth radiation budget (ERB) observations through improved accuracy and extensive use of coincident higher spatial resolution spectral imager measurements on both low-Earth orbit and geostationary platforms.
Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) The Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR), aboard the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory, measures mid-latitude rainfall and snowfall over land and ocean.
Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager (GMI) GMI provides a near-global view of cyclones and other storm systems.