HelioClim-3 database provides from 1 min up to monthly time series of all the radiation components over the horizontal, fix-tilted and normal plane for the actual weather conditions. This service provides irradiation data from D-30 up to yesterday. The Web service is restricted to registered users who purchased an annual subscription to HC3 Monitoring.

This service proposes two options :

• "Helioclim-3 Monitoring Realtime" : This service provides irradiation data from today
  
• and "Helioclim-3 Monitoring Historical". This service provides irradiation data from 2004 up to yesterday
  

For more information, see:

• Heliosat-2: how is built HelioClim-3?
• Annual subscriptions to HelioClim-3:
  • standard (access via the website + automatic access)
    
  • automatic only
    
• Validation results of HC3 at:
  • BSRN
    
  • EnerMENA
    
  • INPE
    
  • INMET
    
  • RMI
    
  • Congo
    
• Automatic access
  

INPUTS

• HelioClim-3 version: the most recent versions are version 4 (available at d-1 and in real time) and version 5 (d-2). More information on the HelioClim-3 versions.
• Add Meteo Data: include (or not) meteo data in the output CSV file. When this option is selected, the unified output format is automatically selected. MERRA-2 data will be provided from 2004 up to approx. a month ago, and GFS afterwards.
• Latitude and longitude: enter the values in decimal degrees (we advise 3 or 4 digits after comma), or directly click on the map to select your point, or you can also use the "Search Address" tool on the top of the map.
• Altitude: enter the altitude, or let us use our default high resolution elevation database SRTM (spatial resolution 90 m, uncertainty 10 m) by letting the default "Automatic" value.
• Start date and End date: format yyyy-mm-dd.
  NB: Please pay attention to ask for complete months when asking for monthly values. If incomplete, the given monthly value results from an interpolation based on the selected days.
• Time step: "1 min", "5 min", "10 min", "15 min", "30 min", "hour", "day", "week", or "month". NB: "1 min" and "5 min" time steps are limited to one month of data per delivery.
• Time reference: UT or TST. More information on time references
  
• Compute relief shadows: take into account (or not) the shadowing effect due to the far horizon.

Plane mode: "Horizontal Plane", "Fixed tilted plane", "2D Sun Tracking (DNI)", "1D Sun Tracking (North-South axis)", "1D Sun Tracking (East-West axis)", "1D Sun Tracking (Tilt tracking)", "1D Sun Tracking (Azimuth tracking)". More details on plane orientations and on how to set the tilt, azimuth and albedo parameters =>

+ Add Meteo data

Meteo data from MERRA-2 and GFS (NCEP) can be retrieved.

NB: When "+ Add meteo data" is selected, the new Unified CSV Format is selected by default.

OUTPUTS

• Launch: push the "process" button, wait a while and right-click on the appeared link to retrieve your file.
• Output formats: "Classic CSV" or "Unified CSV Format"
• Missing data: -999
• "End of interval" integration hypothesis: the integration hypothesis e.g. hourly data at 11:00 means data averaged over 10:00 to 11:00. Please note that all data in SoDa are integrated on the given interval, i.e. irradiances are average irradiances on the given interval, and irradiations are the sum of all irradiations on the given interval. Other database such as CM-SAF SARAH provides instantaneous values at the exact time of acquisition of each pixel in the image (this means that each pixel has a different acquisition time).

  "Classic CSV"

This format is obsolete and won't be maintained since the number and content of the columns change depending on the plane orientation and the time step. Take a look to the column description of "Classic CSV".

  "Unified CSV Format"

This format is simpler which Excel can read seamlessly. It aims at being identical whatever the time step. The consequence is that you can only have two different output columns content: one for horizontal, and another one for all other plane options (fix-tilted, tracking).
NB: When "+ Add meteo data" is selected, new Unified CSV Format is automatically selected.