Great! Source? NREL redbook? RE: Number of EC-110's in Series? [RE -wrenche

[Jeff Oldham]

Greetings Bill,
I use the Red Book a lot because it is quick and easy. However, the ASDC has killer info just updated, that I usually refer to, TON's of data on weather and sun angles, it is really sweet. You can also cut and past it into Word and edit and customize to your hearts content!

I just got this update from them today, at the moment their link is broken:

The Atmospheric Sciences Data Center at NASA Langley Research Center 
announces the availability of Release 4 Surface meteorology and Solar Energy 
(SSE) data. 

Release 4 includes three new applications to view the SSE data in 
different ways:

1. Global data of selected parameters can be easily downloaded for each 
quadrant of the globe. The data table, containing all months and all locations 
in one quadrant of the globe, will fit on one 1.44 MB floppy disk. The data are 
easy to import into spreadsheet software. 

2. The user may now define a region to subset and download tables containing 
spatial or temporal coverage of data by region. 

3. The user may download daily data for each 1°x 1° region and any time period 
from one day to ten years. 

Release 4 total data content is more than twice as large as Release 3. 

New monthly solar, wind, and temperature parameters included in Release 4 are: 
·       Diffuse and direct normal radiation using two different methods. 
·       Equator-facing, tilted-surface radiations estimated using three different methods 
        each for 10-yr average, minimum, and maximum horizontal surface insolation. 
        Values are given at six different equator-facing tilt angles (latitude, latitude + 25°, 
        latitude - 25°, 0°, 90°, and optimum angle for maximum radiation). 
·       Wind speed estimates are improved from values in Release 3, but are still 
        based on height above the ground, snow, water, or ice instead of the effective 
        surface.  Fifty-meter height speeds are now provided, and 10-m averages are 
        also available for 17 surface/vegetation types for each 1-deg cell over the globe.  
        Both direction and diurnal information are also improved.
·       Additional heating degree-day values. Values relative to 0 and 10° C are now 
        provided in addition to values relative to 18° C. 

SSE Web Site: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sse/ 

*********************
HOW TO CONTACT US 
For information regarding our data holdings or for assistance, please contact:

NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Data Center 
Science, User and Data Services 
Mail Stop 157D, 2 S. Wright Street 
Hampton, VA 23681-2199 
Phone: 757-864-8656 
Fax: 757-864-8807 
E-mail: larc at eos.nasa.gov 
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov 


Good luck,
-jeff

>From the Solar, Wind and Hydro powered office of Jeff Oldham

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