"The Surface Solar Radiation Data Set - Heliosat (SARAH) is a satellite-based climatology of the solar surface irradiance (SIS), the surface direct normalized irradiance (DNI) and the effective cloud albedo (CAL) derived from satellite observations of the visible channels of the MVIRI and SEVIRI instruments onboard the geostationary Meteosat satellites. The data are available from 1983 to 2013 and cover the region ±65° longitude and ±65° latitude. The products are available as monthly, daily, and hourly averages on a regular latitude/longitude grid with a spatial resolution of 0.05° x 0.05°. The data set is complemented with a comprehensive documentation of the applied algorithms as well as validation studies and user guidance."
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CM SAF: Solar Surface Irradiance (SSI) for July 2013 |
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CM SAF: Solar Surface Irradiance (SSI) for December 2013 |
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Daily mean of fractional cloud cover (22 January 2012), Source: CM SAF |
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Monthly mean of vertically integrated water vapor (Jan 2010), Source: CM SAF |
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Daily mean of surfcae incoming surfcae radiation (8 July 1984). Source CM-SAF. |
National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Last modified 21 Oct 2015. "The Climate Data Guide: Surface Solar Radiation Data Set - Heliosat (SARAH) -Edition 1." Retrieved from https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/surface-solar-radiation-data-set-heliosat-sarah-edition-1.
Funding: NSF | National Science Foundation
Based at: NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research
A Project of: Climate Analysis Section in Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory
Created by: Climate Data Guide PIs and Staff
