A database of multi-year (2004–2010) quality-assured surface solar hourly  irradiation measurements for the Egyptian territory

Korany, Mohamed; Boraiy, Mohamed; Eissa, Yehia; Aoun, Youva; Abdel Wahab, Magdy M.; Alfaro, Stéphane C.; Blanc, Philippe; El-Metwally, Mossad; Ghedira, Hosni; Hungershoefer, Katja; Wald, Lucien

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-105-2016

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-105-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-105-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

01 Mar 2016

| 01 Mar 2016

A database of multi-year (2004–2010) quality-assured surface solar hourly irradiation measurements for the Egyptian territory

Mohamed Korany, Mohamed Boraiy, Yehia Eissa, Youva Aoun, Magdy M. Abdel Wahab, Stéphane C. Alfaro, Philippe Blanc, Mossad El-Metwally, Hosni Ghedira, Katja Hungershoefer, and Lucien Wald

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RC C336: 'Interactive comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Oct 2015
RC C514: 'Review ESSD-2015-21, Radiation measurements Egyptian stations', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Feb 2016
AC C528: 'Authors' answers to Referees comments', Stephane Alfaro, 18 Feb 2016

Short summary

A database of global and diffuse components of the surface solar hourly irradiation measured from 2004 to 2010 at eight Egyptian meteorological stations is presented. At three sites, the direct component is also available. In addition, a series of meteorological variables is provided at the same hourly resolution. The measurements and quality checks applied to the data are detailed. Finally, 13500 to 29000 measurements of global and diffuse hourly irradiation are available at each site.