Surface albedo, Kaloum

Kaloum, Guinea
2021-2025
Daily
dimensionless
NASA POWER

Mean: 0.115 dimensionless
Seasonal range: 0.018 dimensionless
Highest: November (0.124)
Lowest: June (0.106)
Year-to-year variability: ± 0.005 (4.2 %)
Values: 1,826 days

Monthly means of the daily values.

Period mean

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Surface albedo, dimensionless
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
2025	0.117	0.119	0.130	0.129	0.109	0.125	0.110	0.114	0.110	0.110	0.145	0.126	0.120
2024	0.113	0.110	0.135	0.128	0.111	0.110	0.110	0.113	0.111	0.148	0.128	0.114	0.119
2023	0.116	0.117	0.122	0.104	0.111	0.104	0.111	0.114	0.118	0.111	0.118	0.124	0.114
2022	0.108	0.107	0.098	0.112	0.110	0.105	0.111	0.113	0.114	0.111	0.119	0.120	0.111
2021	0.104	0.103	0.108	0.107	0.107	0.106	0.110	0.119	0.112	0.110	0.124	0.106	0.110
Median	0.113	0.110	0.122	0.112	0.110	0.106	0.110	0.114	0.112	0.111	0.124	0.120
P10	0.106	0.104	0.102	0.105	0.108	0.105	0.110	0.113	0.110	0.110	0.118	0.109
P90	0.116	0.118	0.133	0.129	0.111	0.119	0.111	0.117	0.116	0.133	0.138	0.125
Min.	0.104	0.103	0.098	0.104	0.107	0.104	0.110	0.113	0.110	0.110	0.118	0.106
Max.	0.117	0.119	0.135	0.129	0.111	0.125	0.111	0.119	0.118	0.148	0.145	0.126

CSV file

1,826 rows, 46 KB. Columns: period, value, unit, confidence level, status.

date,valeur,unite,niveau_confiance,statut
2021-01-01,0.11,1,B,brut
2021-01-02,0.1,1,B,brut
2021-01-03,0.08,1,B,brut

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Python

Read the published file directly with pandas.

import pandas as pd

url = "https://kumascience.com/data/guinee/conakry_kaloum/albedo_surface_nasa_power_journalier_99.csv"
df = pd.read_csv(url)
df.head()

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Same variable, other sources

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

Source	Period	Step	Mean (dimensionless)	Gap	0.1120.115
NASA POWER	2001-2020	monthly	0.112	−2.5 %
NASA POWER this record	2021-2025	daily	0.115	reference

Notes

Source: NASA POWER, Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources : Solar and Meteorological Data Archive
Method: Satellite model
Unit: dimensionless
Time step: Daily, charts and table as monthly means
Period: 2021-01-01 - 2025-12-31
Kuma qualification: Acceptable qualification, cross-check series
Source licence: NASA Open Data Policy, domaine public, citation recommandée
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

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 November (0.13), lowest in January (0.11). Source: NASA POWER, Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources : Solar and Meteorological Data Archive.

Cite this series

Kuma Science (2026). Surface albedo, Kaloum (Guinea), 2021-2025. NASA POWER series, Guinea national energy data reference. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21051755. https://kumascience.com/en/donnees/gin_conakry_albedo_surface_nasa_power_2021_2025

@misc{kuma_gin_conakry_albedo_surface_nasa_power_2021_2025,
  author       = {{Kuma Science}},
  title        = {Surface albedo, Kaloum (Guinea), 2021-2025},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {NASA POWER series},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.21051755},
  url          = {https://kumascience.com/en/donnees/gin_conakry_albedo_surface_nasa_power_2021_2025},
  note         = {License CC-BY 4.0}
}

TY  - DATA
AU  - Kuma Science
TI  - Surface albedo, Kaloum (Guinea), 2021-2025
PY  - 2026
PB  - Kuma Science
DO  - 10.5281/zenodo.21051755
UR  - https://kumascience.com/en/donnees/gin_conakry_albedo_surface_nasa_power_2021_2025
N1  - NASA POWER
ER  -

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