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By Paul S Samuel

Meteorological info are crucial for either day by day power administration and for making plans for the realm s destiny strength safeguard. The editor of this compendium, a mechanical engineer with foreign event, has amassed articles that would inspire extra efficient discussion among the strength and meteorology groups. incorporated are chapters on the best way to generate a customary meteorological 12 months, by means of articles that debate the influence of meteorology on wind strength construction, solar power creation, and hydropower operations. The booklet concludes with chapters on seasonal strength management."

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Yang, J. C. Lam, and J. Liu, “Analysis of typical meteorological years in different climates of China,” Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 654–668, 2007. 28. J. M. Finkelstein and R. E. Schafer, “Improved goodness-of-fit tests,” Biometrika, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 641–645, 1971. 29. D. Pissimanis, G. Karras, V. Notaridou, and K. Gavra, “The generation of a “typical meteorological year” for the city of Athens,” Solar Energy, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 405–411, 1988. This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER 2 A Typical Meteorological Year Generation Based on NASA Satellite Imagery (GEOS-I) for Sokoto, Nigeria OLAYINKA S.

The relationship between the relative humidity (Figure 4) and dew point temperature (Figure 5) is reasonable but not as close as that for the global solar radiation and the mean temperature. 04°C, respectively. These values are relatively small, but higher than RMSE values for the mean temperature and global solar radiation. This may be due to nonuniformity of the weighting factors and may also result from the fact that the selection of the TMMs is based on persistence of mean temperature and daily global horizontal radiation.

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