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Type of product

Point data, time-series

Parameters

GHI, DHI, BHI, BNI

Geographical area

global

Europe / Africa / Middle East / Atlantic Ocean / Brazil / east of Asia / Oceania
(Meteosat Second Generation and Himawari 
 field of view)

Horizontal resolution

Interpolated to point of interest from various spatial input data resolutions

Time coverage

from 2004-01-01 to
(current – 2 days)

from 2004-02-01 for Meteosat and 2016-01-01 for Himawari field of view
to (current – 2 days)

Temporal resolution

1 min, 15 min, 1 h, 1 day, 1 month
Following meteorological standards, the time given for an irradiation value is the end of the integration period.

Data format

ASCII (CSV), NetCDF

Data file size

File size depends on the temporal resolution. Largest files are in 1 min temporal resolution and the CSV data format
(e.g. 60 MB for a 1 year time series in the standard output mode and 10 MB if zipped;
138 MB for a 1 year time series in the expert mode and 19 MB if zipped)

Data access

Atmosphere Data Store, the number of requests is limited to 100 per day. (requests are called on SoDa servers). Commercial services do not have the same limitations. You may contact SoDa directly directly for further information on commercial services available. . 

Processing

on request; data normally available within a few minutes

Update of the databases

2 days delayed mode