Global Environmental and Weather data for PyPSA-Earth: An Open Optimisation Model of the Earth Energy System.

<strong>PyPSA-Earth </strong>is an open model dataset of the global power system at different network levels that cover our Earth. The African model can be built using the code provided at https://github.com/pypsa-meets-africa/pypsa-africa. Other regions follow soon under the same code base. Since the GitHub codebase is not suited for handling large changing files, we provide here separate <strong>data bundles and cutouts</strong> to be downloaded and extracted as noted in the documentation The below-provided <strong>cutouts </strong>are spatiotemporal subsets of the Earth weather data from the ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis dataset and the CMSAF SARAH-2 solar surface radiation dataset for the <strong>year 2013</strong>. They have been prepared by and are for use with the atlite tool (https://atlite.readthedocs.io/). They can be reproduced or extended for other weather years (approx. 40-50 years) around the world by using the build.cutout.py <strong>ECMWF ERA5</strong> <strong>Source: </strong>https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels?tab=overview <strong>Terms of Use: </strong>https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/v2/terms/static/20180314_Copernicus_License_V1.1.pdf