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by santosh898 1786 days ago
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Off topic: I am interested in off-shore solar resources.

Are there raw historic datasets or nice visualization for solar irradiation including over seas and oceans ?

You may be interested in era5 data for historical reanalysis. This is published by the ECMWF and is available for free. I’m pretty sure it has solar irradiance data but I’m not certain. You can also get NCAR reanalysis and other model reanalysis products through the NWS[2].

For visualizing gridded data products you can use panoply[3]. If you just care about GRIBS zyGrib works pretty well too.

[1]https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/reanalysis-datas... [2]https://www.ready.noaa.gov/archives.php [3]https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/

There is a startup in Norway called Glint Solar that may help. They serve the floating solar industry with geospatial tools and data, both on reservoirs and offshore. If you can expand a bit on your questions, there may be more resources to point to.
Currently interested in year-round solar irradiation data for seas and oceans (mostly over shipping lanes)

It seems that out to sea (over 100 km from shore) solar actually weakens due to humidity/clouds?

The ocean waves and ocean currents features are so cool! And this thing shows an aurora map! Thanks for sharing.
better than windy, ventusky and what have you