The HelioClim Project: Surface Solar Irradiance Data for Climate Applications

Author:

Blanc Philippe1,Gschwind Benoît1,Lefèvre Mireille1,Wald Lucien1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Center for Energy and Processes, MINES ParisTech, BP 207, 06904 Sophia Antipolis cedex, France

Abstract

Meteosat satellite images are processed to yield values of the incoming surface solar irradiance (SSI), one of the Essential Climate Variables. Two HelioClim databases, HC-1 and HC-3, were constructed covering Europe, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean, and contain daily and monthly means of SSI. The HC-1 database spans from 1985 to 2005; HC‑3 began in 2004 and is updated daily. Their quality and limitations in retrieving monthly means of SSI have been studied by a comparison between eleven stations offering long time-series of measurements. A good agreement was observed for each site: bias was less than 10 W/m² in absolute value (5% in relative value) for HC-3. HC-1 offers a similar quality, though it underestimates the SSI for latitudes greater than 45° and less than −45°. Time-series running from 1985 to date can be created by concatenating the HC-1 and HC-3 values and could help in assessing SSI and its changes.

Publisher

MDPI AG

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