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    Solar Radiation - Monthly and Annual Normals

    Metadata Updated: November 29, 2024

    Monthly 30-year "normal" dataset covering the conterminous U.S., averaged over the climatological period 1991-2020. Contains spatially gridded average annual daily total clear-sky global shortwave radiation on a horizontal plane at 4km grid cell resolution. Clear sky radiation was modeled with the Image Processing Workbench (IPW) and MERRA-2 satellite data. Distribution of effective cloud transmittance point measurements to the spatial grid was accomplished using the PRISM model. Total shortwave radiation on horizontal and sloped ground surfaces was modeled with IPW, using the clear-sky and transmittance grids as inputs. Terrain data was derived from a 30-arc-sec version of the US National Elevation Database. Modeled values incorporate the effects of elevation, shading, and reflection from nearby terrain on solar radiation. This dataset is available free-of-charge on the PRISM website.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date January 26, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date November 29, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from oregon json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 26, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date November 29, 2024
    Publisher State of Oregon
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2024-01-22
    Data Last Modified 2024-01-25
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.oregon.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id ae8191e2-21c2-49b1-9d63-05e72ad5a011
    Harvest Source Id d747cd8f-d1d6-49a3-ab0b-ea17684f1121
    Harvest Source Title oregon json
    Homepage URL https://geohub.oregon.gov/documents/oregon-geo::solar-radiation-monthly-and-annual-normals
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {{extent}}
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 4a625758393177f9970ac66e3d504951f2bc6678e073bba7974a7266af517b56
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial

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