Hourly Shortwave Solar Irradiance - GOES

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Provided by European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)

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Dataset information

Catalog

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Country of origin

EU institutions

Updated

2011.10.07 00:00

Created

Available languages

English

Keywords

Ocean, Radiation

Datasource

Official portal for European data link

Quality scoring

175

Dataset description

Estimation of the solar irradiance reaching the Earth surface, derived from the geostationary satellite GOES-E, produced by remapping over a 0.05° regular grid and expressed in W/m2. Algorithm is a physical parameterization applied separately to every pixel of a satellite image to derive an instantaneous field of the Solar Surface Irradiance. An essential point is the calculation of products interpolated at rounded UT hours. A radiative flux calculated on a satellite image is not homogeneous in time (the pixel time varies from north to south, of about 24 minutes for GOES-E data).

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