Himawari-8/9 Surface Global Solar Irradiance
At a glance
Himawari-8/9 hourly surface global solar irradiance updated during daylight hours.
Product details
Global solar irradiance gridded data:
- Spatial resolution: 0.02 degrees (approximately 2km)
- Temporal resolution: 10 minutes
- Temporal coverage: July 2015 to present
- Spatial resolution: 0.05 degrees (approximately 5km)
- Temporal resolution: hourly
- Temporal coverage: July 2015 to present
Product: IDE00326
Product: IDE00346
Availability
Gridded data files in NetCDF4 format available via:
- Register users
- Researchers who have an account on NCI can request to join the project rv74 on NCI Australia.
- Customers intending to use the data for commercial purposes must contact climatedata@bom.gov.au for an Access Agreement.
Real time data
Historical data
Cost
The Access Agreement fee for commercial purpose is $5,912 AUD per financial year (inc. GST) that will grant permission to use the dataset until the end of the agreement period.
Download a sample
Sample files are available for download:
Product Summary
For specific documentation for the solar irradiance products see:
Product Metadata
The following metadata summary, and detailed metadata for GHI/DNI provide information about the gridded datasets. For example, information is provided about the format, spatial extents and analysis techniques used to generate the grids.
| Title | Himawari-8/9 surface global solar irradiance |
| Description | Global horizontal solar irradiance grids. The grids show the solar irradiance values across Australia in the form of a two-dimensional array. |
| Custodian | Bureau of Meteorology |
| Geographic extent name(s) | Australia |
| Beginning/end dates | July 2015 to present (historical data is available to customers with a 3-month lag). |
| Update frequency | Instantaneous surface global solar calculated every 10 minutes (IDE00326) or 60 minutes (IDE00346) between 18:30 UTC and 11:30 UTC (inclusive) each day. This period represents the bounds of daylight hours for continental Australia. |
| Scale/resolution | The resolution of the data is available on 0.02 degrees (IDE00326) and 0.05 degrees (IDE00346). |
Orders and further information
To order this product, please send an email to climatedata@bom.gov.au or submit via our Data requests & Enquiries page.
For further information, please contact - Climate Data Services: 1300 754 389, option 3
