This study analyzes five years of 1-min solar global horizontal irradiance (GHI) and direct
normal irradiance (DNI) observations obtained at Petrolina (northeast Brazil). Quality …

The ongoing world-wide increase of installed photovoltaic (PV) power attracts notice to
weather-induced PV power output variability. Understanding the underlying spatiotemporal …

Climate change alters the amount and spatiotemporal characteristics of solar radiation at the
surface. How this affects the stability of solar energy has not yet been explored on a global …

The amount of solar (shortwave) radiation that reaches the Earth's surface underwent
substantial variations over recent decades. Since the 1950s, surface shortwave radiation …

Recently, surface diffuse solar radiation (Rdif) has been attracting a growing interest in view
of its function in improving plant productivity, thus promoting global carbon uptake, and its …

Time series of clear‐sky irradiance are fundamental for the understanding of changes in the
Earth Radiation budget, since they allow to examine radiative processes in the cloud‐free …

Monitoring snow cover to infer climate change impacts is now feasible using Earth
observation data together with reanalysis products derived from Earth system models and …

Estimation of downward shortwave radiation (DSR) is of great importance in global energy
budget and climatic modeling. Although various algorithms have been proposed, effective …

The record of downwelling solar irradiance and other surface radiation budget components
for the US has been extended through 2019 using SURFRAD Network data. Brightening of …

Multiple satellite products are available to monitor the spatiotemporal dynamics of surface
albedo. They are extensively assessed over snow-free surfaces but less over snow …