Datasets related to the study "Spatial variability and future evolution of surface solar radiation over Northern France and Benelux: a regional climate model approach"

This dataset contains the data of the manuscript "Spatial variability and future evolution of surface solar radiation over Northern France and Benelux: a regional climate model approach" under publication in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. It includes CNRM-ALADIN64 simulations of surface solar radiation, cloud fraction, aerosol optical depth and water vapor content. A directory is dedicated to HINDCAST simulations. It includes all datasets involved in the evaluation of CNRM-ALADIN64 simulations, as well as all datasets used for the analysis of the spatial variability of surface solar irradiance over the recent past. Another directory is dedicated to future climate simulations. In this case, several sub directories can be found, representing either the simulations over the historical period (2005-2014, i.e. HIST directory), or simulations at mid (2045-2054, "mid" suffix) and long term (2091-2100, "end" suffix) horizons for SSP1-1.9 and SSP3-7.0. Each set of climate simulations is composed of three members (r1f, r2f, r3f), which were used collectively to increase the statistical significance of our analysis.