gov.noaa.ncdc:C00083 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown tabular digital data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov Direct and Standard Year Earth Radiation Data is historical data set DSI-9723 archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This data set consists of Direct Radiation and Standard Year Radiation (SYI) taken from SOLMET. SOLMET refers to the combination of solar radiation and meteorological data. This term is also used to identify the 27 stations that collected global horizontal data from 1951 through 1976. The SOLMET stations, included instruments that measure the global horizontal solar radiation and researchers modeled the direct beam solar radiation data. Each of the stations measured global horizontal solar radiation. Some of these stations made continuous recordings on strip charts; other stations only recorded the daily total energy (insulation) received. Much of these data were digitized at the station, using instructions that changed over the years, and were forwarded to regional centers (later centralized at the NCDC). During 1976, the network was essentially shut down while new equipment was purchased and installed. When these data were evaluated, only 27 stations were deemed suitable for inclusion in a national data base. To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. data set C00083 PYRANOMETERS SOLAR RADIATION STATIONS National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce 19511201 19761231 Ground Condition Complete As Needed 130.0 -60.0 72.0 -15.0 ISO 19115 Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 004 DIF Discipline Keyword Thesaurus Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Meteorology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Climatology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Weather GCMD Sciences Keyword Valids EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SUNSHINE GCMD Location Valids UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PUERTO RICO GUAM AMERICAN SAMOA MARSHALL ISLANDS MICRONESIA PALAU CUBA > GUANTANAMO BAY GCMD Location Valids LAND SURFACE SOLAR RADIATION STATIONS PYRANOMETERS 1 None None These data were subjected to varying degrees of quality control. The historical solar radiation data contain errors resulting from a host of calibration and instrument problems. Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown POSITION: 1 ELEMENT: Code where: 1 = Identifies data as being SYI radiation 2 = Identifies data as being Direct radiation POSITION: 2-6 ELEMENT: WBAN Station Number POSITION: 7-8 ELEMENT: Year POSITION: 9-10 ELEMENT: Month POSITION: 11-12 ELEMENT: Day POSITION: 13 ELEMENT: Data code indicator for hour 01 POSITION: 14-17 ELEMENT: Radiation value for hour 01 POSITION: 18 ELEMENT: Data code indicator for hour 02 POSITION: 19-22 ELEMENT: Radiation value for hour 02 POSITION: xx-xxx ELEMENT: Data code and their values POSITION: 128 ELEMENT: Data code indicator for hour 24 POSITION: 129-132 ELEMENT: Radiation value for hour 24 None National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Customer Service Mailing and physical

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