Long-term variability of solar irradiance and its implications for photovoltaic power in West Africa
- This paper addresses long-term changes in solar irradiance for West Africa (3° N to 20° N and 20° W to 16° E) and its implications for photovoltaic power systems. Here we use satellite irradiance (Surface Solar Radiation Data Set-Heliosat, Edition 2.1, SARAH-2.1) to derive photovoltaic yields. Based on 35 years of data (1983–2017) the temporal and regional variability as well as long-term trends of global and direct horizontal irradiance are analyzed. Furthermore, at four locations a detailed time series analysis is undertaken. The dry and the wet season are considered separately.
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| Document Type: | Preprint |
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| Language: | English |
| Author: | Ina Neher, Susanne Crewell, Stefanie Meilinger, Uwe Pfeifroth, Jörg Trentmann |
| Parent Title (English): | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions |
| Article Number: | 306 |
| Number of pages: | 25 |
| ISSN: | 1680-7375 |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-49649 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-306 |
| Publisher: | Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH |
| Place of publication: | Göttingen |
| Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/05/20 |
| Publication status: | Final published Version: Neher, I., Crewell, S., Meilinger, S., Pfeifroth, U., and Trentmann, J.: Photovoltaic power potential in West Africa using long-term satellite data, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 12871–12888, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12871-2020, 2020 |
| Copyright: | © Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. |
| Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften und Kommunikation |
| Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 55 Geowissenschaften, Geologie / 551 Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie |
| Entry in this database: | 2020/07/02 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
