Provides an overview of non-commercial sources of international solar radiation data and related meteorological information currently available from the International Renewable Resource Database (IRRD). At present, the IRRD contains highly summarised analyses of solar radiation resources on global and regional scales and for 31 specific countries. The information has been assembled primarily from literature searches conducted in response to requests for resource assessments by the Solar Radiation Resource Assessment Project (SRRAP) and other programs funded by the United States Department of Energy. A summary of 12 selected information sources is presented.

KEYWORDS: year 1995, international, solar radiation, databases, information retrieval, meteorology, climatology, statistics