Download Europe Volume "Agate" - contact us | Last update: May 2018 |
Volume of data
NB: As the two 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 "AGATE" over Europe computed with McClear version 3 and CAMS radiation bias correction - CAMS project - Dec. 2017". | Downloads 8 |
Introduction |
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Grid description | We used a nb_lines*nb_columns = 275*126 points over Europe with a 0.2° step. Only grid cells on land were computed. Download the list of the 275*126 grid points in CSV format.
NB: the formula to convert (lat, lon) into grid cell is:
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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:
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. For example, CAMS_Radiation_GHI_at_point_300_on_2005-01-10.jpg compares CAMS Radiation GHI on 2005-01-10 at location (57.4, -2.4) extracted from the web interface and from ghi.h5. The small difference is due to the data compression as 1 byte per value in AGATE. | ![]() Click on the image to magnify: GHI on 2005-04-01 from 11h45 to 12h00 UT |
Routines to extract entire or part of AGATE |
Europe maps "AGATE" of CAMS radiation data and CAMS McClear
Radiation Component | DOWNLOADS | MONTHLY AVERAGED over 2005-2017 | YEARLY AVERAGED over 2005-2017 |
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AGATE 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 Europe – "AGATE" volume – April 2018 | ![]() Click to maximize | ![]() Click to maximize |
AGATE 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 Europe – "AGATE" volume – April 2018 | ![]() Click to maximize | ![]() Click to maximize |
AGATE 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 Europe – "AGATE" volume – April 2018 | ![]() Click to maximize | ![]() Click to maximize |