High-resolution surface global solar radiation and the diffuse component dataset over China

The accurate knowledge of their spatial distribution is of great importance to many studies and applications, such as the estimation of agricultural yield, carbon dynamics of terrestrial systems, site selection of solar power plants, as well as trends of regional climate changes.

Therefore, we produce the hourly surface radiation datasets based on the hourly Multi-functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT) satellite imagery and the ground observations from the China Meteorology Administration (CMA) through deep learning techniques. This dataset provides the gridded surface global and diffuse solar radiation within 71.025°E - 141.025°E and 14.975°N - 59.975°N with an increment of 0.05°, covering the period from 2007 to present.