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mikejohnson51 / climateR

An R 📦 for getting point and gridded climate data by AOI
https://mikejohnson51.github.io/climateR/
MIT License
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Consider adding National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) as a dataset? #52

Closed eli-asarian closed 1 year ago

eli-asarian commented 2 years ago

Mike, another gridded climate dataset I like but have trouble downloading in large quantities is National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB). It's the best (highest quality and best resolution) gridded solar radiation dataset in North America. I previously had some R code that would download pixel time series by feeding the API a list of URLs, but NSRDB changed its system and my code doesn't work anymore. API instructions at https://nsrdb.nrel.gov/data-sets/download-instructions.html. I don't know if it'd be possible to integrate this dataset into climateR (there's no OpenDAP service that I'm aware of), but wanted to mention it just in case.

mikejohnson51 commented 2 years ago

I have not had luck finding this as a web accessible resource so for now its unlikely to integrate. The change in you code might be that they now require an API key.

Mike