NREL National Solar Radiation Database

Stream data with DDA:

from dagshub.streaming import DagsHubFilesystem

fs = DagsHubFilesystem(".", repo_url="https://dagshub.com/DagsHub-Datasets/nrel-pds-nsrdb-dataset")

fs.listdir("s3://nrel-pds-nsrdb/")

Description:

Released to the public as part of the Department of Energy's Open Energy Data Initiative, the National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) is a serially complete collection of hourly and half-hourly values of the three most common measurements of solar radiation – global horizontal, direct normal, and diffuse horizontal irradiance — and meteorological data. These data have been collected at a sufficient number of locations and temporal and spatial scales to accurately represent regional solar radiation climates.

Contact:

Released to the public as part of the Department of Energy's Open Energy Data Initiative, the National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) is a serially complete collection of hourly and half-hourly values of the three most common measurements of solar radiation – global horizontal, direct normal, and diffuse horizontal irradiance — and meteorological data. These data have been collected at a sufficient number of locations and temporal and spatial scales to accurately represent regional solar radiation climates.

Update Frequency:

Annually

Managed By:

https://www.nrel.gov/

Collabs:

• ASDI:
  • Tags: energy

Resources:

1. resource:
   • Description: NREL Solar Radiation Datasets
   • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/
   • Region: us-west-2
   • Type: S3 Bucket
   • Explore: Browse Dataset
2. resource:
   • Description: NSRDB v3 4km x 30min data (1998-2018) in HDF5 format
   • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/
   • Region: us-west-2
   • Type: S3 Bucket
   • Explore: Browse Dataset
3. resource:
   • Description: NSRDB v3 typical meteorological years (TMY) in HDF5 format
   • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/tmy/
   • Region: us-west-2
   • Type: S3 Bucket
   • Explore: Browse Dataset
4. resource:
   • Description: NSRDB v3 typical direct years (TDY) in HDF5 format
   • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/tdy/
   • Region: us-west-2
   • Type: S3 Bucket
   • Explore: Browse Dataset
5. resource:
   • Description: NSRDB v3 typical global years (TGY) in HDF5 format
   • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/tgy/
   • Region: us-west-2
   • Type: S3 Bucket
   • Explore: Browse Dataset
6. resource:
   • Description: NSRDB synthetically downscaled 2km x 5min for Puerto Rico (1998-2017) in HDF5 format
   • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/puerto_rico/
   • Region: us-west-2
   • Type: S3 Bucket
   • Explore: Browse Dataset
7. resource:
   • Description: NSRDB 2km-5min data for the Contiguous United States (CONUS) starting with 2018 in HDF5 format
   • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/conus/
   • Region: us-west-2
   • Type: S3 Bucket
   • Explore: Browse Dataset
8. resource:
   • Description: NSRDB 2km-10min data for the all of the Western Hemisphere (GOES full-disc) starting with 2018 in HDF5 format
   • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/full_disc/
   • Region: us-west-2
   • Type: S3 Bucket
   • Explore: Browse Dataset
9. resource:
   • Description: NSRDB 4km-15min data from the Meteosat satellites starting in 2017 in HDF5 format
   • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/meteosat/
   • Region: us-west-2
   • Type: S3 Bucket
   • Explore: Browse Dataset
10. resource:
    • Description: NSRDB 4km-10min data from the Himawari satellites starting in 2015 in HDF5 format
    • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/himawari/
    • Region: us-west-2
    • Type: S3 Bucket
    • Explore: Browse Dataset
11. resource:
    • Description: NSRDB Suny-India data (2000-2014) in HDF5 format
    • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/india/
    • Region: us-west-2
    • Type: S3 Bucket
    • Explore: Browse Dataset
12. resource:
    • Description: Meteorological Statistical Model 1 (MTS1) data (1961-1990) in HDF5 format
    • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/mts1
    • Region: us-west-2
    • Type: S3 Bucket
    • Explore: Browse Dataset
13. resource:
    • Description: Meteorological Statistical Model 2 (MTS2) data (1991-2005) in HDF5 format
    • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/mts2
    • Region: us-west-2
    • Type: S3 Bucket
    • Explore: Browse Dataset
14. resource:
    • Description: HSDS NSRDB domains
    • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-hsds/nrel/nsrdb/
    • Region: us-west-2
    • Type: S3 Bucket
    • Explore: Browse Dataset

Tags:

aws-pds, earth observation, energy, geospatial, meteorological, solar, sustainability

Tools & Applications:

1. tools & applications:

   • Title: NSRDB Viewer
   • URL: https://nsrdb.nrel.gov/nsrdb-viewer
   • AuthorName: Manajit Sengupta, Yu Xe, Anthony Lopez, Aron Habte, Galen Maclaurin, James Shelby, Paul Edwards

2. tools & applications:

   • Title: HSDS Examples
   • URL: https://github.com/NREL/hsds-examples
   • AuthorName: Caleb Phillips, Caroline Draxl, John Readey, Jordan Perr-Sauer, Michael Rossol

Publication:

1. publication:

   • Title: The National Solar Radiation Data Base (NSRDB)
   • URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403211830087X
   • AuthorName: Manajit Sengupta, Yu Xe, Anthony Lopez, Aron Habte, Galen Maclaurin, James Shelby

2. publication:

   • Title: Physics-guided machine learning for improved accuracy of the National Solar Radiation Database
   • URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038092X22000044
   • AuthorName: Grant Buster, Mike Bannister, Aron Habte, Dylan Hettinger, Galen Maclaurin, Michael Rossol, Manajit Sengupta, Yu Xie