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Volume of data (AFRICA)

As the 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 3.1 and CAMS radiation v3.2

In brief
  • Radiation components:
    • Global Horizontal Irradiation (GHI): ghi_20XX.h5
    • Beam (direct) Horizontal Irradiation (BHI): bhi_20XX.h5
    • Diffuse Horizontal Irradiation (DHI): dhi_20XX.h5
    • Beam (Direct) Normal Irradiation (BNI): bni_20XX.h5
    • Global Horizontal Irradiation in clear sky conditions (Gc): gc_20XX.h5
    • Beam (direct) Horizontal Irradiation in clear sky conditions (BHI): bc_20XX.h5
    • Diffuse Horizontal Irradiation in clear sky conditions (DHI): dc_20XX.h5
    • Beam (Direct) Normal Irradiation in clear sky conditions (BNI): bnc_20XX.h5
  • Time step: 15 minute
  • Temporal period: 2005 to 2020
  • Format: hdf5
  • 1 hdf5 file per year and per component

Click on the image to magnify
 
Grid description

We used a grid of nb_columns*nb_lines = 371*386 points over Africa with a 0.2° step. Only grid cells on land were computed. Download the list of the 2371*386 grid points in CSV format.

Grid:

  • grid_step = 0.2°
  • minimum longitude: -20.1°
  • minimum latitude: -37.1°
  • maximum longitude: 54.1°
  • maximum latitude: 40.1°

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 35040 maps, which correspond to the number of 15 min periods in 1 year (35136 maps for leap years).

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 hdf5 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

Africa maps "JADE" of CAMS radiation data and CAMS McClear

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Radiation Component DOWNLOAD monthly and yearly maps

JADE GHI

Global Horizontal Irradiation

 

Download zip-compressed yearly and monthly averaged GHI maps

© 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

JADE DHI

Diffuse Horizontal Irradiation

Download zip-compressed yearly and monthly averaged DHI maps

© 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

JADE Gc

Global Horizontal Irradiation in cloud-free conditions

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© 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

JADE BNI

Direct Normal Irradiation

Download zip-compressed yearly and monthly averaged BNI maps

© 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