Round-based measurements
IPCC DDC Baseline Climate Data
http://ipcc-ddc.cru.uea.ac.uk/ddc_visualisation.html
World Radiation Data Centre
http://wrdc-mgo.nrel.gov/
Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN)
World Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC)
http://bsrn.ethz.ch/
National Climatic Data Center (USA)
http://nndc.noaa.gov/
Meteonorm (commercial):
http://www.meteotest.ch/en/mn_home?w=ber
International Solar Irradiation Database, U. Massachusetts-Lowell:
http://energy.caeds.eng.uml.edu/solbase.html
Satellite-derived data
NASA Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy:
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sse/
interfaces to RETScreen free modelling program:
http://www.retscreen.net/
SeaWiFS Surface Solar Irradiance:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/seawifs/
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project:
http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/
Australian
Australian Solar Radiation Data Handbook and AUSOLRAD (commercial):
https://anzses.sslaccess.com/Bookshop.html
Bureau of Meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/sat/solrad.shtml
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/climatology/sunshine_hours/sunhrs.shtml
ANUCLIM:
http://cres.anu.edu.au/outputs/climatesurfaces/creswww.pdf
http://cres.anu.edu.au/outputs/anuclim.html
UNSW Centre for PV Engineering:
Opportunities for the Use of Building Integrated Photovoltaics
in NSW
Muriel Watt, John Kaye, Dean Travers, Iain MacGill
Photovoltaics Special Research Centre, UNSW
Deo Prasad, P.C.Thomas, Liz Fox, SOLARCH, UNSW
Serryn Jansen, Allen, Allen & Hemsley.
Graphics of Energy Production
(kWh/m^2/day) as a Function of Orientation and Tilt
Angle for Canberra: Annual and by Month.
Annual
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
All 13 images in a zip file.
European
Satel-Light:
http://www.satel-light.com/core.htm
Helioclim:
http://www.helioclim.net/index.html
SoDa:
http://www.soda-is.com/
European Solar Radiation Atlas
http://www.ensmp.fr/Fr/Services/PressesENSMP/Collections/ScTerEnv/Livres/atlas_tome1.htm
http://www.ensmp.fr/Fr/Services/PressesENSMP/Collections/ScTerEnv/Livres/atlas_tome2.htm
Hong Kong
http://www.weather.gov.hk/wxinfo/climat/normals.htm
USA
U. Wisconsin Solar Energy Lab:
http://sel.me.wisc.edu/trnsys/
Regional:
NREL:
http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/
Integrated Surface Irradiance Study:
http://www.atdd.noaa.gov/isis.htm
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