Information
Course Code | AME26 |
Semester | 2 |
Category | |
ECTS Credits | 8 |
Eclass |
Professors
Proposed Bibliography
1. Solar Energy Forecasting and Resource Assessment, Academic Press, 2013
2. Wind Energy Meteorology, Springer, 2013
Course Description
Solar Energy
- Solar Radiation and Atmosphere
- Semi-empirical and Physical Models using Satellite Data.
- Databases and Variability of Solar’s Potential.
- Solar Radiation Forecasting in Various Spatial and Time Scales: Digital Imaging of the Sky Dome, Satellite Data, Weather Forecast Models.
Wind Energy
- Wind Systems
- Vertical Wind Speed Distribution over a Complex Terrain.
- Off-shore Wind.
- Physics of Wind Farms
- State-of-the-Art methods for evaluating the wind potential.