Collection Citation
| Collection Title | Solar Radiation Data from the World Radiation Data Centre (WRDC) Online Archive | ||
| Collection Sponsor | USDOE | ||
| Other Sponsors | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring | ||
| DOE Data Center | Renewable Resource Data Center (RReDC) | ||
| Host Website | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) | ||
| Other Related Organizations | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, A.I. Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory (St. Petersburg, Russia) | ||
| Main Content Type | Numeric Files/Datasets | ||
| Subject Categories | 14 - SOLAR ENERGY | ||
| Keywords | Solar radiation; Sunshine; Flux; Global measurements; Diffuse measurements | ||
| Description | The WRDC, located at the Main Geophysical Observatory in St. Petersburg, Russia, serves as a central depository for solar radiation data collected at over 1000 measurement sites throughout the world. The WRDC was established in accordance with Resolution 31 of WMO Executive Committee XVIII in 1964. The WRDC centrally collects, archives and published radiometric data from the world to ensure the availability of these data for research by the international scientific community. The WRDC archive contains the following measurements (not all observations are made at all sites):
At present, this online archive contains a subset of the data stored at the WRDC. As new measurements are received and processed, they are added to the archive. The archive currently contains all available data from 1964-1993.[From “Background on the WRDC” at http://wrdc-mgo.nrel.gov/html/about.html] | ||
| DDE Number | DDE00333 | ||
| Special Interface | Yes | ||
| Registration_Required | Yes |
