The second version of Uruguay's Solar Map provides annual and monthly averages of daily global irradiation at an horizontal surface. A statistical satellite based model is used to obtain hourly solar irradiation from GOES-East's visible channel imagery. This hourly information is used to compute the monthly and annual averages using a 14 years' local database of satellite images. The coeficients of the statistical model are tunned using the data from the National Solar Measurements' Network administrated by the National Public University's Solar Energy Laboratory (LES/UdelaR, Uruguay). The network is equipped with first class field pyranometers according to ISO 9060:1990 (Kipp & Zonen CMP6 or higher quality). Pyranometers are regularly calibrated against a secondary standard Kipp & Zonen CMP22 that the Solar Energy Laboratory keeps calibrated against the primary standard in the World Radiation Center in Davos, Switzerland. For more information check the website: http://les.edu.uy. Resume of the metadata: Name: Uruguay's Solar Map Version 2.0. Component: Solar Global irradiation at an horizontal plane. Temporal resolution: annual and monthly averages of daily irradiation in kWh/m2. Spatial resolution: about 1 km. Origin: satellite irradiation data based on GOES-East imagery. Satellite Statistic: GOES-East images from 01/01/2000 to 31/13/2013. Credits: Laboratorio de Energía Solar, Universidad de la República, Uruguay (http://les.edu.uy). Citation and methodology: ALONSO SUÃREZ, R.; ABAL, G.; SIRI, R.; MUSÉ, P. Brightness-dependent Tarpley model for global solar radiation estimation using GOES satellite images: application to Uruguay. Solar Energy 86, pag. 3205-3215, 2012.

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Surface solar irradiation, or daily solar exposure in Mozambique in Wh/m2. Global. Mar. 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). Copyright 2014 MINES ParisTech, University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique Meteorological Institute 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/

Wind map is calculated, by simulating the atmosphere conditions with SKIRON mesoscale model. GFS 12 UTC cycle, from NCAR/NCEP is used as input. The period simulated is since June-2003 until June-2012. SKIRON long-term simulation is launched to cover the entire 9 years, generating hourly maps to the entire simulated period. With this output Iraq wind map is computed averaging 30 meters Weibull parameter k from the nine years. Typically the grid horizontal resolution is 0.05 x 0.05 and has 50 vertical levels.

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Harmonised WFS Download service for The the recent national soil inventory of the Maltese Islands (MALSIS), soils were described according to the criteria of the World Reference Base for Soil Resources

Mineral occurrences and mines in Europe (onshore). Data prepared and collected in the projects Mineral4EU, EURare, ProSUM, MINTELL4EU, RESEERVE and others

DTM of the German Bight (yearly, 1982 - 2012). Classified isosurfaces of spatiotemporally interpolated bathymetries from the years 1982 to 2012, with two parameters for the purposes of reliability: Confidence and Minimum dt. The parameter Confidence [m] indicates the reliability of the modelled bathymetry. Data were generated within the framework of the German Coastal Engineering Research Council project AufMod (¿Aufbau integrierter Modellsysteme zur Analyse der langfristigen Morphodynamik in der Deutschen Bucht¿ [¿Development of integrated model systems for the analysis of long-term morphodynamics in the German Bight¿], 01.11.2009-31.12.2012).

Surface solar irradiation, or daily solar exposure in Egypt in Wh/m2. Global. November. 10-years average (2005-2014) of monthly mean of daily irradiation received on a horizontal plane (or a plane always facing the sun if DNI). Copyright 2015 Port Said University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics 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 version 4. 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 Egypt. 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-pro.com/help#helioclim

Wind map is calculated, by simulating the atmosphere conditions with SKIRON mesoscale model. GFS 12 UTC cycle, from NCAR/NCEP is used as input. The period simulated is since January-2008 until December-2010. SKIRON long-term simulation is launched to cover the entire 3 years, generating hourly maps to the entire simulated period. With this output Africa wind map is computed averaging 10 meters wind speed from the nine years. Typically the grid horizontal resolution is 0.1 x 0.1 and has 38 vertical levels