gsee-climate-data
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This distribution bundles code and data that are covered by different terms.


Code
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The `gsee_climate_data` Python package is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause
License. See LICENSE for the full text.


Data
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The bundled data file

    src/gsee_climate_data/data/merra2_rad3x3_2011-2015_pdfs_land_prox.npz

contains monthly probability density functions of daily mean global horizontal
irradiance, derived from NASA's Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research
and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2). MERRA-2 is produced by the NASA Global
Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) and distributed by the Goddard Earth
Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC).

MERRA-2 is released under NASA's Earth science data policy of full and open
sharing: there are no restrictions on its use or redistribution, and as a work
of the United States Government it is not subject to domestic copyright
protection (17 U.S.C. 105). Citation of the source is requested rather than
required. The BSD 3-Clause License above applies to the code in this package,
not to the underlying reanalysis data.


Citation
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When using this data, please cite MERRA-2:

    Gelaro, R., McCarty, W., Suarez, M. J., et al. (2017). The Modern-Era
    Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2).
    Journal of Climate, 30(14), 5419-5454.
    https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0758.1

and, for the derived PDFs and the GSEE model that consumes them:

    Pfenninger, S., & Staffell, I. (2016). Long-term patterns of European PV
    output using 30 years of validated hourly reanalysis and satellite data.
    Energy, 114, 1251-1265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2016.08.060
