Annually and monthly resolved solar irradiance and atmospheric temperature data across the Hawaiian archipelago from 1998 to 2015 with interannual summary statistics

Richard Bryce; Ignacio Losada Carreño; Andrew Kumler; Bri-Mathias Hodge; Billy Roberts; Carlo Brancucci Martinez-Anido

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.05.099

Annually and monthly resolved solar irradiance and atmospheric temperature data across the Hawaiian archipelago from 1998 to 2015 with interannual summary statistics

Data Brief. 2018 May 23:19:896-920. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.05.099. eCollection 2018 Aug.

Authors

Richard Bryce^{1

2}, Ignacio Losada Carreño^{1

3}, Andrew Kumler¹, Bri-Mathias Hodge¹, Billy Roberts¹, Carlo Brancucci Martinez-Anido¹

Affiliations

¹ National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States.
² Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States.
³ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States.

Abstract

This article contains data and summary statistics of solar irradiance and dry bulb temperature across the Hawaiian archipelago resolved on a monthly basis and spanning years 1998-2015. This data was derived in association with an article titled "Consequences of Neglecting the Interannual Variability of the Solar Resource: A Case Study of Photovoltaic Power Among the Hawaiian Islands" (Bryce et al., 2018 [7]). The solar irradiance data is presented in terms of Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI), Diffuse Horizontal Irradiance (DHI), and Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI) and was obtained from the satellite-derived data contained in the National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB). The temperature data is also obtained from this source. We have processed the NSRDB data and compiled these monthly resolved data sets, along with interannual summary statistics including the interannual coefficient of variability.