High resolution solar irradiance variability climatology dataset part 1: direct, diffuse, and global irradiance

Dataset paper

See the official dataset description paper (preprint) over at Earth System Science Data.

Dataset description

High resolution surface solar irradiance observations from the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) of Cabauw, the Netherlands. This dataset spans 10 years, from 2011-02 until 2020-12-31.

This dataset is the preprocessed 1 Hz observational record of direct, diffuse, and global horizontal irradiance, which is the basis for the official BSRN 1-minute dataset published at PANGAEA. Please refer to the official dataset for detailed metadata, instrument information, quality control flags, the full radiation balance and more (1 minute resolution). More information about the observational site Cabauw can be found at the Ruisdael Observatory website, and more general information about BSRN is published on ESSD.

Part 1 of 2

This dataset is the basis for an analysis of surface solar irradiance variability, derived variables, supplementary meteorological data, and quicklooks, available in part 2 here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7092058

Usage disclaimer

While resampling this 1-Hz data to 1-minute, with the official BSRN quality flags, should reproduce an identical dataset to the official 1-minute BSRN dataset, this has not yet been validated for this version. When you require the most reliable version of the radiation measurements, where variability at a higher resolution than 1 minute is not of concern, please refer to the official BSRN dataset at PANGAEA.