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Solar Radiation Data Access and Tools

NASA's archives include data from the Sentinel-5P satellite's TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) providing measurements of solar radiance and irradiance levels, and the VEMAP 2 project 100-year climate change scenario estimates. Our datasets and tools help researchers translate these interconnected data points into actionable knowledge.

Solar Radiation Datasets

Dataset Version Sort ascending Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
BOREAS/SRC AMS Suite A Surface Meteorological and Radiation Data: 1994 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS WIND MONITOR, ULTRASONIC DEPTH GAUGE, TEMPERATURE PROBES, RAIN GAUGES, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR, PYRANOMETERS, NET RADIOMETERS, BAROMETERS, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, INFRARED THERMOMETERS 1993-12-15 to 1994-12-31

N: 56.89 S: 52.15 E: -97.87 W: -108.51

ASCII
GEWEX SRB Integrated Product (Rel-4) Shortwave 3-Hourly Fluxes 1 SATELLITES RADIOMETERS 1983-07-01 to 2017-06-30 NetCDF-4
Climate Normals for Last Glacial Maximum and Modern (1975-2005), Alaska 1 COMPUTERS Computer 1000-01-01 to 2005-12-31

N: 74 S: 47.7384 E: -106.933 W: -178.236

GeoTIFF
First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Arctic Cloud Experiment (ACE) Radiation Measurement System (RAMS) 1 C-130 RAMS 1998-05-04 to 1998-07-30 NetCDF
NWS Daily Climatology Data: 1973 (SNF) 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS HYGROMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, PYRANOMETERS, THERMOMETERS 1973-01-01 to 1973-12-31

N: 48.1697 S: 47.6575 E: -91.7658 W: -92.5058

ASCII
Sentinel-5P TROPOMI Irradiance product UVN module L1B V1 (S5P_L1B_IR_UVN) at GES DISC 1 Sentinel-5P TROPOMI 2018-04-30 to 2021-06-30
CAMEX-4 MIPS SURFACE STATION 1 V1 1 MIPS, GROUND STATIONS ANEMOMETERS, BAROMETERS, HYGROMETERS, PYRANOMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, THERMOMETERS 2001-08-15 to 2001-09-08

N: 24.8 S: 24.6 E: -81.5 W: -81.7

ASCII
Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-8 Processed Archival Tape 1 NOAA-10, NOAA-9, ERBS ERBE, ERB-SCANNER 1984-11-05 to 1990-02-28 Binary
NARSTO_EPA_SS_ST_LOUIS Air Chemistry, Particulate Matter, Met Data 1 GROUND STATIONS, METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS AETHALOMETER, RAIN GAUGES, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, ANEMOMETERS, AA-Particle, PRESSURE SENSORS 2000-06-22 to 2003-07-20 ASCII
NWS Daily Climatology Data: 1987 (SNF) 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS HYGROMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, PYRANOMETERS, THERMOMETERS 1987-01-01 to 1987-12-31

N: 48.1697 S: 47.6575 E: -91.7658 W: -92.5058

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