Monthly climatologies of GHI and DNI for Cyprus retrieved from satellite measurements

The published dataset has been created using high quality and fine resolution satellite retrievals of aerosols  from the MIDAS climatology (Gkikas et al., 2021), as well as information for clouds from CMSAF (Pfeifroth et al., 2017). The surface solar radiation has been simulated using the libRatran radiative transfer model (Mayer and Kylling, 2005). More information about the methodology used to create the dataset can be found in the corresponding study:

I. Fountouakis et al., (2021): Effects of aerosols and clouds on the levels of surface solar radiation and solar energy in Cyprus, submitted to the journal Remote Sensing

References

Gkikas, A.; Proestakis, E.; Amiridis, V.; Kazadzis, S.; Di Tomaso, E.; Tsekeri, A.; Marinou, E.; Hatzianastassiou, N.; Pérez García-Pando, C. ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS): a global fine-resolution  dust optical depth data set. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 2021, 14, 309–334. 10.5194/amt-14-309-2021.

Pfeifroth, Uwe; Kothe, Steffen; Müller, Richard; Trentmann, Jörg; Hollmann, Rainer; Fuchs, Petra; Werscheck, M. Surface Radiation Data Set - Heliosat (SARAH) - Edition 2, Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring. 2017. 10.5676/EUM_SAF_CM/SARAH/V002.

Mayer, B.; Kylling, A. The libRadtran software package for radiative transfer calculations-description and examples of use. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2005, 5, 1855–1877.