Global Environmental and Weather data for PyPSA-Earth: An Open Optimisation Model of the Earth Energy System.

PyPSA-Earth is an open model dataset of the global power system at different network levels that cover our Earth. The African model can be built using the code provided at github.com. Other regions follow soon under the same code base. Since the GitHub codebase is not suited for handling large changing files, we provide here separate data bundles and cutouts to be downloaded and extracted as noted in the documentation The below-provided cutouts are spatiotemporal subsets of the Earth weather data from the ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis dataset and the CMSAF SARAH-2 solar surface radiation dataset for the year 2013. They have been prepared by and are for use with the atlite tool (atlite.readthedocs.io). They can be reproduced or extended for other weather years (approx. 40-50 years) around the world by using the build.cutout.py ECMWF ERA5 Source: cds.climate.copernicus.eu Terms of Use: cds.climate.copernicus.eu Not all authors are listed due to time limitations and will be added in future.