Global horizontal irradiance from WRF-Solar and NSRDB over CONUS
This dataset has been used in the publication:
Jimenez, P.A., J. Yang, J.-H. Kim, M. Sengupta, and J. Dudhia: Assessing the WRF-Solar model performance using satellite-derived irradiance from the National Solar Radiation Database. J. Applied Met. & Climatol., 61, 129-142.
The article presents the reference WRF-Solar configuration and describes the value of shortwave irradiance retrievals from the National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) to improve the WRF-Solar performance. The dataset consist of global horizontal irradiance from several WRF-Solar simulations over the contiguous U.S. spanning the year of 2018, and collocated satellite retrievals for the same year.
The dataset will help to:
1. Ensure reproducibility of results in the article above
2. Provide a reference WRF-Solar simulation and adequate observations over an extended period to continue improving the WRF-Solar performance
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- Temporal Range
- 2018-01-01 to 2018-12-31
- Temporal Resolution
- 30.0 minute
- Spatial Resolution
- 9.0 kilometer
- Related Links
- Assessing the WRF-Solar Model Performance Using Satellite-Derived Irradiance from the National Solar Radiation Database WRF-Solar Ensemble Prediction System
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- Credit
- Funding provided by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Project DE-AC36-08GO28308.
We would like to acknowledge high-performance computing support from Cheyenne (https://doi.org/doi:10.5065/D6RX99HX) provided by NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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- Version History
- 1.0
- Latitude Range
- 20.0° N to 55.0° N
- Longitude Range
- 135.0° W to 60.0° W
- Authors
- Jimenez, Pedro A.
Yang, J.
Kim, J.-H.
Sengupta, M.
Dudhia, J.
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