TECHNICAL CONSIDERATION OF THE EFFECT OF SOLAR RADIATION ON NIGERIA
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The technical consideration of some common and related atmospheric variables were investigated in the light of climate change on annual time scale and a suitable scheme was further developed for the simulation of annual global solar radiation in Nigeria. In this connection, annual trends of global solar radiation, air temperature, precipitation, relative humidity and sunshine hours was carried out, covering about 13 tropical stations during 1975-2006 in Nigeria using F-test as the significance test technique. It was found that nine stations exhibited an upward trend in global solar radiation series, of which 6 passed F-test at 1% significant level. At 11 stations, precipitation had shown an increasing trends but none passed F-test at 2.5% and hence, not significant. About 98.8% of the stations displayed an upward trend in sunshine hours of which 16% passed F-test at 1% significant level. On trend analysis for relative humidity series, eight stations exhibited a positive trend and only one station passed F-test at 1% significant level. The technical consideration of temperature series in Nigeria under the period under investigation was found to be increasing at 12 stations and eight stations passed the F-test at 1% significant level. The other objective of this study was to determine a more suitable empirical equation by modifying Angstrom model for the estimation of global solar radiation using all data for all 14 stations pooled together to predict global solar radiation using linear and multiple linear regression. This was done to improve the low performance of the Angstrom model used for the annual estimation of global solar radiation. The model parameters ‘a’ and ‘b’ of Angstrom model were parameterized in terms of the geographical locations (latitude, longitude and elevation) and the meteorological variables (sunshine hour, precipitation, relative humidity and temperature), respectively. This scheme gave better simulation of the global solar radiation compared with other schemes and the original Angstrom models. In addition, the preferential consideration of relative humidity to precipitation as potent contributing factor in the estimation of global solar radiation was also established.
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