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

  1. Solar Radiation and Atmosphere
  2. Semi-empirical and Physical Models using Satellite Data.
  3. Databases and Variability of Solar’s Potential.
  4. Solar Radiation Forecasting in Various Spatial and Time Scales: Digital Imaging of the Sky Dome, Satellite Data, Weather Forecast Models.

Wind Energy

  1. Wind Systems
  2. Vertical Wind Speed Distribution over a Complex Terrain.
  3. Off-shore Wind.
  4. Physics of Wind Farms
  5. State-of-the-Art methods for evaluating the wind potential.