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Australian Gridded Solar Climatology Web Data Services

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 22/10/2025

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These datasets are long term averages of solar radiation at the surface over the Australian land mass. Applications of these data include solar energy, agriculture, building thermal design and water balance modelling. Climatologies are given for two radiation parameters: the global horizontal exposure, which is the total amount of solar energy falling on a horizontal surface over a time interval; and the direct normal exposure which is the total of the component of radiation from the sun’s disk on a plane perpendicular to the beam. Climatologies of daily exposure are given as an annual average and as a set of twelve monthly averages. Climatologies of the diurnal cycle are given as monthly averages of hourly exposures through the day. These data sets are derived from 23 years (1990 - 2012) of data from satellites operated by Japan Meteorological Agency and the US National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration. NEII

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Title Australian Gridded Solar Climatology Web Data Services
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f6b1069d-3fc4-4897-a550-d16e20c1a18d
Remote Last Updated 08/10/2025
Contact Point
Bureau of Meteorology
?datansw@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 13/12/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Australian Gridded Solar Climatology Web Data Services". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-australian-gridded-solar-climatology