Trying to access a NOAA database

[Naty1]

I'm trying to read solar radiation data from the following website...can anyone assist me in accessing this information...thank you. (I am expecting to see surface solar radiation strengths by state.)

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/documentlibrary/surface-doc.html

You have to scroll down to this:

Dataset 3282: U.S. National Solar Radiation Database

and then select that line item..they are in numercial order...

 

[story645]

I am expecting to see surface solar radiation strengths by state.[/url

Um, you're looking at the metadata tables, not the actual tables.You're going to have to parse/import the XML file into a db and then read out information, but as far as I can tell these files only give you information about the tables/data (like column name and range limits) anyway.

Actual database: NSRDB
http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/1991-2005/hourly/list_by_state.html

 

[Naty1]

So it's yet another useless government expenditure of my tax dollars...just great!

Thanks for the assistance...

 

[story645]

So it's yet another useless government expenditure of my tax dollars...just great!

The data is all there, you just have to know what you're looking at/where to look. Having lab facilities where you can just download all the data and arrange it sensibly helps a lot.