Global Solar Atlas
Annual GHI averages in GeoTIFF. Needs a PV simulation step before any CEM can use it.
- ProvenanceNot yet assessed
- DocumentationNot yet assessed
- Currency & maintenanceNot yet assessed
Global Solar Atlas, a Renewable resource & weather dataset, published as GeoTIFF, available at https://globalsolaratlas.info/download. Annual GHI averages in GeoTIFF. Needs a PV simulation step before any CEM can use it.
- Identifier
https://catalog.opengrid.org/ds/global-solar-atlas- Domains
- Renewable resource & weather
Fitness for purpose
- Supports
- Not captured
- Not suitable for
- Not captured
The exclusions are the half you cannot get anywhere else. A dataset that is wrong for your question is worth knowing about before you build on it.
Structure
- Network topology
- Not captured
- Impedances
- Not captured
- Voltage classes
- Not captured
- Provenance class
- derived
- Upstream sources
- Not capturedWhich is a statement about what the catalog can show, not about how the data was produced.
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
- Redistribution
- Not captured
Access terms, per path
GeoTIFF
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Geographic
- Bounding box
- Not captured
- Granularity
- gridded
- Native CRS
- Not captured
- Geometry types
- Not captured
- Features
- Not captured
Temporal
- From
- Not captured
- To
- Not captured
- Update cadence
- Not captured
- Time resolution
- yearly
No field-level metadata yet.
Field-level metadata has not been captured for this record yet. It is at completeness level 1; field descriptions arrive at level 2.
Three independent facets
Graded separately and never combined. A dataset can be perfectly current and completely unprovenanced, and one number would hide exactly that.
Provenance
–Not yet assessed
Not the same as a poor grade. Provenance and documentation are graded from field-level metadata, which this record does not carry yet.
Documentation
–Not yet assessed
Not the same as a poor grade. Provenance and documentation are graded from field-level metadata, which this record does not carry yet.
Currency & maintenance
–Not yet assessed
No update cadence is recorded, so there is nothing to be past due against. Absent means not captured, not that the dataset has no cadence.
Not the same as a poor grade. Provenance and documentation are graded from field-level metadata, which this record does not carry yet.
This record is at completeness level 1. Provenance and Documentation are assessed from field-level metadata, which a level 1 record does not carry. Not yet assessed is not the same as poor.
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Related through shared coverage; no stronger connection is recorded.
- · Both are gridded.
- PyPSA-Eur weather cutoutsStrength 1 of 5Related
Related through shared coverage; no stronger connection is recorded.
- · Both are gridded.
- ECMWF ERA5 reanalysisStrength 1 of 5Related
Related through shared coverage; no stronger connection is recorded.
- · Both are gridded.
- NREL National Solar Radiation DatabaseStrength 1 of 5Related
Related through shared coverage; no stronger connection is recorded.
- · Both are gridded.
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GeoTIFF
- No account needed:
- Yes