Solar Radiation Atlas of Africa: Global and diffuse radiation fluxes at ground level derived from imaging data of the geostationary satellite METEOSAT 2

by W. Palz (Editor), E. Raschke (Editor), T.C. Steemers (Editor), R. Stuhlman (Editor)

Overview

Observations cover the continents Africa and Europe, the Middle East and wide regions of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Results for the time period (1985-1986) are presented as coloured images and in the form of tables. To ensure the accuracy of these retrieved solar radiation fields at ground level, a comparison with all available ground based pyranometer measurements was made.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789054101093
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/1991
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

W. Palz, E. Raschke, T.C. Steemers, R. Stuhlman

Table of Contents

LIST OF COLOURED IMAGES, PREFACE, NOMENCLATURE, LIST OF ACRONYMS, PART I. METHODS OF DATA ANALYSIS AND VALIDATIONS, MAJOR RESULTS, 1. INTRODUCTION, 2. DOCUMENTATION OF METHODS, 3. SOME KEY RESULTS AND SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSIONS, 4. CONCLUSIONS, PART II. DETAILED MONTHLY MAPS FOR AFRICA AND EUROPE, 5. DAILY SUMS OF GLOBAL AND DIFFUSE RADIATION, 6. MAPS OF THE RATIO OF DIFFUSE TO GLOBAL RADIATION AND MAPS OF THE ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMITTANCE, 7. YEARLY AND SEASONAL MEANS, 8. MONTHLY AVERAGES OF HOURLY VALUES OF GLOBAL RADIATION, 9. COMPARISONS BETWEEN COLOGNE MODEL RESULTS AND GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS, 10. MONTHLY AVERAGES OF GLOBAL RADIATION FOR WESTERN AFRICA AND THE SAHEL ZONE, 11. ISOLINE PLOTS OF GLOBAL FIADIATION FOR AFRICA, PART III. COLOURED IMAGES

Editorial Reviews

As a part of the Non-Nuclear Energy and Development Program of the Commission of the European Communities, the project SUNSAT was initiated to calculate the global radiation and its diffuse component as well as their statistics from the METEOSAT B2-ISCCP satellite data set. These observations cover the continents of Africa and Europe, the Middle East and wide regions of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Within this atlas, results for the time period (1985-1986) are presented as colored images with a spatial resolution of 0.5 degree x 0.5 degree and in the form of tables. The tables contain averages over areas of 2.5 degree x 2.5 degree longitude and latitude. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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