Research Article

Vertical Profile of Wind Diurnal Cycle in the Surface Boundary Layer over the Coast of Cotonou, Benin, under a Convective Atmosphere

Table 3

Root-Mean-Squared Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) values for different law fits corresponding to the 10–60 m extrapolation range (2013–2016).

Power lawLog law
RMSE (m·s−1)MAE (m·s−1)RMSE (m·s−1)MAE (m·s−1)

January0.060.060.050.04
February0.070.050.100.09
March0.040.030.050.04
April0.030.020.020.01
May0.050.040.040.03
June0.090.070.110.09
July0.040.030.050.04
August0.030.020.040.03
September0.140.130.100.08
October0.100.070.070.06
November0.060.050.070.06
December0.040.030.030.02