Ground-measurement GHI map for Qatar

D. Bachour; D. Perez-Astudillo

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.03.243

Ground-measurement GHI map for Qatar

D. Bachour^*, D. Perez-Astudillo

^*Corresponding author for this work

QEERI - Energy Center

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Abstract

This paper presents several maps of the annual Global Horizontal Irradiation, GHI, over Qatar, based on ground measurements of daily GHI for the period 2007-2012, from as many as 12 monitoring stations. Considering the longest coincident operation period of these stations, a map of 4-year averages from 2009 to 2012 was produced and yearly GHI variations with respect to this map are also presented, showing a maximum inter-annual variability of 6.5%. Moreover, a map produced with yearly values from the HelioClim1 database for the period 1985 to 2005 is shown and compared to the ground based map using the same locations. The ground-measured yearly average for Qatar is 2113 kWh/m ²/year, calculated considering the 4-year period of coincident data.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2297-2302
Number of pages	6
Journal	Energy Procedia
Volume	49
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.03.243
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	International Conference on Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2013 - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: 17 Sept 2013 → 20 Sept 2013

Keywords

GHI
Interannual variability
Solar map
Solar resource assessment

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Ground-measurement GHI map for Qatar

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