Download CAMS radiation data over Africa "JADE"  -  

 Last update: May. 2018

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Volume of data

As the eight files are too large to be permanently placed on the SoDa server, please contact us so that we can make the data available for a short time period.

Copyright: please refer to this volume as "CAMS radiation service dataset "JADE" over Africa computed with McClear version 3 and CAMS radiation bias correction - CAMS project - Dec. 2017"

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In brief
  • Radiation components:
    • Global Horizontal Irradiation (GHI): ghi.h5
    • Beam (direct) Horizontal Irradiation (BHI): bhi.h5
    • Diffuse Horizontal Irradiation (DHI): dhi.h5
    • Beam (Direct) Normal Irradiation (BNI): bni.h5
    • Global Horizontal Irradiation in clear sky conditions (Gc): gc.h5
    • Beam (direct) Horizontal Irradiation in clear sky conditions (BHI): bc.h5
    • Diffuse Horizontal Irradiation in clear sky conditions (DHI): dc.h5
    • Beam (Direct) Normal Irradiation in clear sky conditions (BNI): bnc.h5
  • Time step: 15 minute
  • Temporal period: 2005 to 2017
  • Format: hdf5
  • 7z compressed
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Grid description

We used a nb_lines*nb_columns = 385*370 points over Africa with a 0.2° step. Only grid cells on land were computed.

  • grid_step = 0.2°
  • minimum longitude: -20°
  • minimum latitude: -37°
  • maximum longitude: 54°
  • maximum latitude: 40°

NB: the formula to convert (lat, lon) into grid cell is:

  • x = round((lon - lon_min)/grid_step + 0.5)
  • y = round((lat_max - lat)/grid_step + 0.5)
Volume content

Each HDF5 dataset comprises 455808 maps, which corresponds to the number of 15 min periods from 2005-01-01 to 2017-12-31.

Each value in HDF5 files is stored as an unsigned byte:

  • The value 255 denotes a grid cell over the sea (not computed)
  • The value 254 means a computation error
  • Else, the value should be multiplied by 1.2 to get the 15 min GHI irradiation in Wh/m².

If you extract ghi.h5 data as a time series for one location, you will get almost the same data as CAMS Radiation web interface. The small difference is due to the data compression as 1 byte per value in JADE.

Click on the image to magnify: GHI on 2005-04-01 from 11h45 to 12h00 UT
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Africa maps "JADE" of CAMS radiation data and CAMS McClear

More info on JADE data

Radiation Component DOWNLOADS MONTHLY AVERAGED
over 2005-2017		 YEARLY AVERAGED
over 2005-2017

JADE GHI

Global Horizontal Irradiation

 

Download zip-compressed yearly and monthly averaged GHI maps

*How to visualise these uint16 Geotiff images

To cite these data:

© ARMINES / MINES ParisTech / TRANSVALOR /  ECMWF - COPERNICUS Atmosphere Monitoring Service – Monthly and yearly average Global Horizontal Irradiation maps from CAMS Radiation Service over Africa – "JADE" volume – April 2018
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JADE Gc

Global Horizontal Irradiation in cloud-free conditions

Download zip-compressed yearly and monthly averaged Gc maps

*How to visualise these uint16 Geotiff images

To cite these data:

© ARMINES / MINES ParisTech / TRANSVALOR /  ECMWF - COPERNICUS Atmosphere Monitoring Service – Monthly and yearly average Global Horizontal Irradiation maps in cloud-free conditions from CAMS McClear over Africa – "JADE" volume – April 2018
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JADE BNI

Direct Normal Irradiation

Download zip-compressed yearly and monthly averaged BNI maps

*How to visualise these uint16 Geotiff images

To cite these data:

© ARMINES / MINES ParisTech / TRANSVALOR /  ECMWF - COPERNICUS Atmosphere Monitoring Service – Monthly and yearly average Direct Normal Irradiation maps from CAMS Radiation Service over Africa – "JADE" volume – April 2018
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