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.

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/

This map is part of the UAE solar atlas developed by the Research Center for Renewable Energy Mapping and Assessment (ReCREMA) at Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi. The UAE solar atlas utilizes satellite imagery through a robust ANN model to map the solar potential across the country. Estimated irradiance is subsequently validated against independent ground data. Direct normal irradiance (DNI), diffuse horizontal irradiance (DHI) and global horizontal irradiance (GHI) are produced at a 3 km spatial resolution and in a near real-time manner (updated every 15 min). Hourly, daily, monthly and yearly irradiation maps for all three components are derived as the final product. The UAE Solar Atlas report with a detailed explanation of the methodology and results is available at http://atlas.masdar.ac.ae/docs/ReCREMA_UAE_Solar Atlas_Report.pdf Relevant publications: Eissa, Y., Chiesa, M., Ghedira, H., Assessment and recalibration of the Heliosat-2 method in global horizontal irradiance modeling over the desert environment of the UAE, Solar Energy, Vol. 86, pp 1816-1825, 2012. Eissa, Y., Marpu, P., Gherboudj, I., Ghedira, H., Ouarda, T., and Chiesa, M., Artificial neural network based model for retrieval of the direct normal, diffuse horizontal and global horizontal irradiances using SEVIRI images, Solar Energy, Vol. 89, pp 1–16, 2013. Updated list of publications can be found at http://recrema.masdar.ac.ae/publications/

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.

Heating Degree Days below 18° C (degree days)The monthly accumulation of degrees when the daily mean temperature is below 18° C.NASA Surface meteorology and Solar Energy (SSE) Release 6.0 Data Set (Nov 2007)22-year Monthly Average & Annual Sum (July 1983 - June 2005)Parameter: Heating Degree Days Below 18 degrees C (degree days)Internet: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sse/Note 1: SSE Methodology & Accuracy sections onlineNote 2: Lat/Lon values indicate the lower left corner of a 1x1 degree region. Negative values are south and west; positive values are north and east. Boundaries of the -90/-180 region are -90 to -89 (south) and -180 to -179 (west). The last region, 89/180, is bounded by 89 to 90 (north) and 179 to 180 (east). The mid-point of the region is +0.5 added to the the Lat/Lon value. These data are regional averages; not point data.Created: December 10, 2007See the NASA Surface meteorology and Solar Energy (SSE) web site at http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sse/. The source data was downloaded from the SSE website at Data Retrieval: Meteorology and Solar Energy > Global data sets as text files. The tabular data was then converted to the shapefile format. Source: U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Surface meteorology and Solar Energy (SSE)

The LandScan 2012 Global Population Database was developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for the United States Department of Defense (DoD).

Map of the monthly minimum air temperature, mean values of the period 1971-2000, obtained by multivariate regression with altitude and distance to the coast, explanatory variables, and ordinary kriging of residues.

HelioClim-1 Yearly Mean of Irradiance - Years 1985-2005 The HelioClim-1 database, abbreviated in HC-1, offers daily values of Surface Solar Irradiation (SSI) for the period 1985–2005. It has been created from archives of images of the Meteosat First Generation. This dataset provides for each year (1985-2005) a map of yearly mean of irradiance in (w/m2).

This map is part of the UAE solar atlas developed by the Research Center for Renewable Energy Mapping and Assessment (ReCREMA) at Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi. The UAE solar atlas utilizes satellite imagery through a robust ANN model to map the solar potential across the country. Estimated irradiance is subsequently validated against independent ground data. Direct normal irradiance (DNI), diffuse horizontal irradiance (DHI) and global horizontal irradiance (GHI) are produced at a 3 km spatial resolution and in a near real-time manner (updated every 15 min). Hourly, daily, monthly and yearly irradiation maps for all three components are derived as the final product. The UAE Solar Atlas report with a detailed explanation of the methodology and results is available at http://atlas.masdar.ac.ae/docs/ReCREMA_UAE_Solar Atlas_Report.pdf Relevant publications: Eissa, Y., Chiesa, M., Ghedira, H., Assessment and recalibration of the Heliosat-2 method in global horizontal irradiance modeling over the desert environment of the UAE, Solar Energy, Vol. 86, pp 1816-1825, 2012. Eissa, Y., Marpu, P., Gherboudj, I., Ghedira, H., Ouarda, T., and Chiesa, M., Artificial neural network based model for retrieval of the direct normal, diffuse horizontal and global horizontal irradiances using SEVIRI images, Solar Energy, Vol. 89, pp 1–16, 2013. Updated list of publications can be found at http://recrema.masdar.ac.ae/publications/

This map is part of the UAE solar atlas developed by the Research Center for Renewable Energy Mapping and Assessment (ReCREMA) at Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi. The UAE solar atlas utilizes satellite imagery through a robust ANN model to map the solar potential across the country. Estimated irradiance is subsequently validated against independent ground data. Direct normal irradiance (DNI), diffuse horizontal irradiance (DHI) and global horizontal irradiance (GHI) are produced at a 3 km spatial resolution and in a near real-time manner (updated every 15 min). Hourly, daily, monthly and yearly irradiation maps for all three components are derived as the final product. The UAE Solar Atlas report with a detailed explanation of the methodology and results is available at http://atlas.masdar.ac.ae/docs/ReCREMA_UAE_Solar Atlas_Report.pdf Relevant publications: Eissa, Y., Chiesa, M., Ghedira, H., Assessment and recalibration of the Heliosat-2 method in global horizontal irradiance modeling over the desert environment of the UAE, Solar Energy, Vol. 86, pp 1816-1825, 2012. Eissa, Y., Marpu, P., Gherboudj, I., Ghedira, H., Ouarda, T., and Chiesa, M., Artificial neural network based model for retrieval of the direct normal, diffuse horizontal and global horizontal irradiances using SEVIRI images, Solar Energy, Vol. 89, pp 1–16, 2013. Updated list of publications can be found at http://recrema.masdar.ac.ae/publications/