Satellite-based solar radiation nowcasting
Based on the MSG-CPP cloud products (cloud physical properties retrieved from Meteosat measurements) a forecast/nowcast of these cloud properties is made and converted to surface downwelling shortwave radiation. The nowcast is made using the pySTEPS optical flow method for an area covering Europe and a 4-hour time horizon with a 15-minute time step. The values are resampled on a lat-lon grid with a resolution of 0.05x0.05 degrees.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-12-15
- Edition
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1.0
- Citation identifier
- urn:xkdc:ds:nl.knmi::surface_solar_irradiance/1.0/
- Purpose
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To deliver information about the expected amount of solar radiation, which is particularly relevant for the solar energy sector.
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Continual
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DG Discovery Properties Vocabulary 1.0
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Weather forecast
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Sunshine and radiation
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Nowcast
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Satellite
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Solar radiation
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- Use limitation
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No use limitations
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Distance
- 0.05 degrees
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2025-12-15
- End date
- 9999-12-31
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
- Distribution format
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Name Version GRIB
2
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Turnaround
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Approximately 20 minutes after the observation time
Digital transfer options
- Transfer size
- 30
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name landingpage
https://dataplatform.knmi.nl/catalog/datasets/index.html?x-dataset=surface_solar_irradiance&x-dataset-version=1.0 KNMI Data Platform
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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EUMETSAT/MSG, intended for use in DE_330 project
Metadata
- File identifier
- 46a03c88-982e-4b19-af0c-04b1a7fe30d0 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-12-15
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003 NL Kernset 1.3 KNMI 2.1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding Dutch; Flemish
Overviews
Spatial extent
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