Daily UV index and UV dose data from MSR-2 in yearly netCDF files	UV archive overview
Archives of maps and data files of individual days:       Clear-sky UV index:   erythemal       Daily UV dose:   erythemal  |  vitamin-D  |  DNA-damage

The standard UV data archive − accessible through the links above −
provides maps and links to HDF-4 data files for individual days.

This page provides the daily UV data gathered together
in yearly netCDF files; climatologies are not yet available.

Note that the MSR-2 record has only cloud-free data.

 

select year	data coverage	data set	prefix
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023	world  |  europe world  |  europe world  |  europe world  |  europe	clear-sky erythemal UV index & ozone field clear-sky erythemal UV dose clear-sky vitamin-D UV dose clear-sky DNA-damage UV dose	uvief uvdec uvdvc uvddc

Notes

• Data coverage comes in two versions: the full World or Europe
• Europe is longitude = [−25°:+45°], latitude = [+30°:+70°]; see sample on the right
• World data files are 0.5 - 1.1 GB, Europe data files are 25 - 60 MB

• Clear-sky UV and ozone data is available for the full World
  as of 1 January 1960
• Cloud-modified UV dose data is not available for the MSR-2 record

• Climatologies are not yet made availabel for the MSR-2 record

• Data files are manually added once a year
  Last data added: 31 December 2023

• History:
  19 Feb. 2024 = public release of the netCDF files
  

Data files can also be downloaded with a script, for example, using wget:

     wget https://www.temis.nl/uvradiation/v2.0/msr2/nc/2020/uvdvc2020_msr_world.nc
     wget https://www.temis.nl/uvradiation/v2.0/msr2/nc/2018/uvddc2018_msr_europe.nc

where the first 5 characters of the data file name (such as uvdvc) is the prefix
listed in the last column of the table above.

UV data timeseries at a given location

From these files it is relatively easy to extract time series for a given location
-- so-called overpass data -- e.g. by starting from this sample Python tool.

You may, however, want to check first whether we are already extracting and
daily updating overpass data for your location -- see this page.
 

General information

• General data product description of version 2.x
• Structure and reading of :  daily HDF-4 files  |  yearly netCDF files

last modified: 04 December 2024
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