Mozambique Solar GHI Average April [2004-2013] 3km Eduardo Mondlane University

Surface solar irradiation, or daily solar exposure in Mozambique in Wh/m2. Global. Apr.

10-years average (2004-2013) of monthly mean of daily irradiation received on a horizontal plane (or a plane always facing the sun if DNI).

MINES ParisTech has developed the Heliosat-2 method that converts 15 min Meteosat images into irradiation maps and stores them into the HelioClim-3 database. The HelioClim-3 irradiations are combined with estimates of the irradiation that should be observed if the sky were clear at these instants.The estimates of clear-sky irradiation are provided by the McClear model. A monthly irradiation is computed only if at least 25 daily irradiations are valid in the month. To complete the month, the irradiation of a missing day is computed by taking into account the mean value of the valid days and the daily irradiation at the top of atmosphere for this missing day. A day is valid if the database contains at least one 15-min irradiation for this day. Gaps in a day are filled by taking into account the available 15-min irradiation and the 15-min irradiation at the top of atmosphere. The other irradiation components (direct, diffuse) received on an horizontal or plane normal to sun rays are then computed using a published empirical model.

HelioClim-3 data and diffuse and direct components on any plane are provided on the Web via the SoDa Service (www.soda-is.com and pro.soda-is.com) since 2004. Such data are used by academics for teaching and research in solar energy, environment, climate and others, and by companies for the sitting of solar plants (PV, CST), their sizing, and the monitoring of their production.The French company Transvalor is in charge of the SoDa Service and provides also a series of user-tailored services, such as maps similar to those for Mozambique. MINES ParisTech and Transvalor have set up the McClear Clear-Sky Irradiation service that delivers time series of clear sky global, direct, direct normal, and diffuse irradiation for any site in the world, any period of time starting in 2004 up to now, with a time step ranging from 1 min to 1 month. The McClear model is an outcome of the MACC and MACC-II EU-funded projects.

More Information:

Heliosat-2 publication:

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/36/13/64/PDF/solar_energy04_heliosat2.pdf

HelioClim-3:

http://www.soda-is.com/eng/helioclim/helioclim3_eng.html

McClear publication:

http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/6/2403/2013/amt-6-2403-2013.pdf

McClear Web service:

http://www.soda-pro.com/free-web-services/radiation/mcclear

MACC projects:

http://www.gmes-atmosphere.eu/

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