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About our data
From our Website, you can download
any of several thousand files containing solar radiation data. There are
many different uses for these data, and so we've created several types of
data files intended to satisfy various needs. To effectively
use our solar radiation data, you'll need to know about the data encoding
and file formatting conventions we've used. This page contains links to
that information.
Types of data files
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Cumulative
summary files summarize single types of data for the entire period
during which measurements have been taken. |
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Daily
total files have total solar radiation readings for each day during
a given year. |
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Monthly
average files record averaged solar radiation over 5-, 10, 15, or
60-minute intervals for each month of a given year. |
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Single
element profile files display values of a single data type in a tabular
format, where there is a column for each hour of the day, and a row for each
day of the month. |
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Archival
files contain original and corrected short interval (5-, 10-,
15-, or 60-minute) data for each day during a given month. Each of
these files typically contains a number of different solar radiation
and meteorological data streams. |
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Multifilter
Rotating Shadowband Radiometer (MFR-7) files contain spectral and broadband
global, diffuse, and beam measurements from an MFR. |
Data encoding conventions
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Data
element numbers are four-digit codes which designate particular
data types, such as diffuse solar radiation. |
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Quality
control flags indicate bad or missing data and show whether data
have been edited or may be less dependable than other values. |
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Station
ID codes identify the monitoring station at which data were obtained. |
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Units of
solar radiation frequently found in our data files may require a brief
explanation, found here. |
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Laboratory.
Last
revised: March 4, 2022.
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