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Newton, B, Cowie, S, Rijks, D et al. (3 more authors) (2014) Solar cooking in the sahel. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95 (9). 1325 - 1328. ISSN 0003-0007
Abstract
Solar cookers are a cheap, practical tool for sustainable development, which can be built and maintained without access to expensive tools or machinery. Solar cookers require direct sunshine for effective cooking, so clouds or heavy atmospheric dust loads can slow down or prevent their use. Surface meteorological (SYNOP) stations record the daily hours of direct sunshine and were used to generate climatology of days with greater than 6 h available for cooking. The SYNOP dataset is very sparse in many parts of Africa and therefore is complemented by the use of geostationary satellite data. Higher temporal resolution surface insolation records are derived from SEVIRI (Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager) on board the Meteosat Second Generation satellite series by EUMETSAT's Land Satellite Application Facility, but the approach uses fixed aerosol climatology. Direct surface solar irradiance was derived using the Beer-Lambert law using AODs retrieved from SEVIRI. Validation indicates that its capabilities are strongest over drier and less vegetated surfaces such as those found in the Sahara and Sahel. Biomass-burning aerosol may be significant over the Sahel in winter, and SEVIRI AODs may miss this unless it is masked as cloud, although here SYNOP values are still greater than those from SEVIRI.
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Inst for Climate & Atmos Science (ICAS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2015 10:52 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 21:47 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00182.1 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Meteorological Society |
Identification Number: | 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00182.1 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:86232 |
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