TY - JOUR
T1 - A climatological estimate of incident solar energy in Tamaulipas, northeastern Mexico
AU - Rivas, David
AU - Saleme-Vila, Salomón
AU - Ortega-Izaguirre, Rogelio
AU - Chalé-Lara, Fabio
AU - Caballero-Briones, Felipe
N1 - Funding Information:
The data from the automatic meteorological stations were kindly provided by Mexico's Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, through Emmanuel Álvarez Ramírez. This paper is a contribution of the recently formed Laboratorio de Materiales Fotovoltaicos of CICATA-IPN Altamira, which has been funded by projects SIP-20111267 and SEP-CONACYT 151679Q. DR has been funded by CICESE's budget through the internal project 625118.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - An estimation of climatological fields of incident solar energy in Tamaulipas State, northeastern Mexico, is presented. Monthly mean evolution of solar energy in 7 automatic meteorological stations distributed along the State shows that the maximum values generally exceed 500±200Wm-2 during fall-winter (Nov-Feb), and 700±200Wm-2 during spring-summer (May-Aug). An empirical model, which estimates the solar energy as function of other climatic variables (minimum temperature, maximum temperature, evaporation, and precipitation) recorded in 165 climatological conventional stations, is used to extend the climatological solar-energy estimate in the study area. The mean values of both measured and estimated solar energy are objectively mapped to fill the observation gaps and reduce the noise associated with inhomogeneous statistics and estimation errors. The highest values of solar energy (~6.7kWhm-2 during the summer and ~4.0kWhm-2 during the winter) are observed in the highlands, southwestern part of the State, whereas the lowest values (~5.7kWhm-2 during the summer and ~2.8kWhm-2 during the winter) are observed in the south-central part of the State.
AB - An estimation of climatological fields of incident solar energy in Tamaulipas State, northeastern Mexico, is presented. Monthly mean evolution of solar energy in 7 automatic meteorological stations distributed along the State shows that the maximum values generally exceed 500±200Wm-2 during fall-winter (Nov-Feb), and 700±200Wm-2 during spring-summer (May-Aug). An empirical model, which estimates the solar energy as function of other climatic variables (minimum temperature, maximum temperature, evaporation, and precipitation) recorded in 165 climatological conventional stations, is used to extend the climatological solar-energy estimate in the study area. The mean values of both measured and estimated solar energy are objectively mapped to fill the observation gaps and reduce the noise associated with inhomogeneous statistics and estimation errors. The highest values of solar energy (~6.7kWhm-2 during the summer and ~4.0kWhm-2 during the winter) are observed in the highlands, southwestern part of the State, whereas the lowest values (~5.7kWhm-2 during the summer and ~2.8kWhm-2 during the winter) are observed in the south-central part of the State.
KW - Climatology
KW - Empirical model
KW - Estimation
KW - Incident solar energy
KW - Northeastern Mexico
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U2 - 10.1016/j.renene.2013.05.022
DO - 10.1016/j.renene.2013.05.022
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0960-1481
VL - 60
SP - 293
EP - 301
JO - Renewable Energy
JF - Renewable Energy
ER -