Global solar radiation at Qomolangma station (The Tibetan Plateau) is measured by radiation sensor (pyranometers CM22, Kipp & Zonen Inc., The Netherlands), and water vapor pressure (hPa) at the ground is measured by HMP45C-GM (Vaisala Inc., Vantaa, Finland). This dataset includes hourly solar radiation and its absorbing and scattering losses caused by the absorbing and scattering atmospheric substances (MJ m-2, 200-3600 nm), and the albedos at the top of the atmosphere and the surface. The above solar radiations are calculated by using an empirical model of global solar radiation (Bai, J.; Zong, X.; Ma, Y.; Wang, B.; Zhao, C.; Yang, Y.; Guang, J.; Cong, Z.; Li, K.; Song, T. 2022. Long-Term Variations in Global Solar Radiation and Its Interaction with Atmospheric Substances at Qomolangma. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 19, 8906. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19158906). The observed global solar radiation and meteorological variables are available at https://data.tpdc.ac.cn/zh-hans/data/b9ab35b2-81fb-4330-925f-4d9860ac47c3/. The data set can be used to study solar radiation and its attenuation at Qomolangma region.

File naming and required software

Data file names: qomo SR 2007001.txt, qomo SR 2007001.xlsx, where qomo is the station name, Sr is the solar radiation, yyyy represents the year, mm, DD represents the month and day, hh:mm represents the hour: minute. The data includes the cumulative radiation value of hours (i.e. 60 minutes), in MJ m-2, including the total solar radiation on the ground (g), the absorbed and scattered radiation lost in the atmosphere (attenuation by absorbent and scattering substances) (GLA, GLS).

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Bai, J. (2022). Data set of solar radiation at Qomolangma, China (2007-2020). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Atmos.tpdc.272749. CSTR: 18406.11.Atmos.tpdc.272749. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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1. Bai, J., Zong, X., Ma, Y., Wang, B., Zhao, C., Yang, Y., Guang, J., Cong, Z., Li, K., & Song, T. (2022). Long-Term Variations in Global Solar Radiation and Its Interaction with Atmospheric Substances at Qomolangma. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 19, 8906. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19158906( View Details | Bibtex)

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