Client for NASA POWER global meteorology, surface solar energy and climatology data 'API'. POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resource) data are freely available global meteorology and surface solar energy climatology data for download with a resolution of 0.5 by 0.5 arc degree longitude and latitude and are funded through the NASA Earth Science Directorate Applied Science Program. For more on the data themselves and a web-based data viewer and access, please see https://power.larc.nasa.gov/.

Note

While nasapower does not redistribute the data in any way, we encourage users to follow the requests of the POWER Project Team.

When POWER data products are used in a publication, we request the
following acknowledgment be included:
    "These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center POWER Project
funded through the NASA Earth Science Directorate Applied Science Program."

References

https://power.larc.nasa.gov/documents/POWER_Data_v8_methodology.pdf

See also

  • get_power Download POWER Data and Return a Tidy Data Frame

  • create_icasa Create a DSSAT ICASA File from POWER Data

  • create_met Create an APSIM met File from POWER Data

  • citation(nasapower) For proper citation of nasaspower