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Global horizontal irradiation, Beyla

Mean
5.24 kWh/m²/day
Annual total
1,913 kWh/m²/yr
Highest
January (5.82)
Lowest
August (4.32)
Year-to-year variability
± 0.036 (0.7 %)
Values
1,826 days

Monthly means of the daily values.

  • Period mean

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Same variable, other sources

5 series published for this variable in Beyla. The gap compares period means, which do not always cover the same years.

Source Period Step Mean (kWh/m²/day) Gap 5.165.72
NASA POWER 1991-2020 monthly 5.24 +0.1 %
ERA5-Land 2001-2020 monthly 5.16 −1.5 %
PVGIS-SARAH-3 2021-2023 monthly 5.72 +9.2 %
ERA5-Land 2021-2025 daily 5.25 +0.2 %
NASA POWER this record 2021-2025 daily 5.24 reference

Notes

Method
Satellite model
Unit
kWh/m²/day
Time step
Daily, charts and table as monthly means
Period
2021-01-01 - 2025-12-31
Kuma qualification
Acceptable qualification, cross-check series
Kuma licence
CC-BY 4.0, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21051755

Distribution

Seasonal and monthly variability

Distribution

Monthly distribution (Tukey boxplot)

Distribution of values, month by month
12.754.56.258Global horizontal irradiation (kWh/m²/day) ↑JFMAMJJASONDMonths →
Each box shows the spread for one month: the thick bar is the median value, the box covers the central half of the values. Highest typical value in January (5.88 kWh/m²/day), lowest in August (4.47 kWh/m²/day). Source: NASA POWER, Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources : Solar and Meteorological Data Archive.

Cross-source

Cross-source validation

Comparison

NASA POWER vs SARAH-3 ICDR

  • NASA POWER
  • SARAH-3 ICDR
Monthly series 2021-2023
4.04.55.05.56.06.57.0Global horizontal irradiation monthly (kWh/m²/day) ↑202120222023
Distribution of monthly gaps
0123456Months ↑−505Relative deviation (%) →µ = -8.34% · σ = 2.76%

Mean relative deviation NASA POWER − SARAH-3 ICDR: -8.34% (σ = 2.76%, 36 months). The Kuma quantity ecart_relatif_referentiel embodies this cross-check (layer B).

Cite this series

Kuma Science (2026). Global horizontal irradiation, Beyla (Guinea), 2021-2025. NASA POWER series, Guinea national energy data reference. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21051755. https://kumascience.com/en/donnees/gin_beyla_ghi_nasa_power_2021_2025

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