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

Table 4

Mean Absolute Error (MAE) between models and measure corresponding to the 10–60 m extrapolation range (2013–2016).

	Proposed model (best fitting equation)	Mikhail and Justus [67]	Mikhail [11]	Nfaoui et al. [12]	Kasbadji [13]
	MAE (m·s^−1)	MAE (m·s^−1)	MAE (m·s^−1)	MAE (m·s^−1)	MAE (m·s^−1)
Jan	0.06	0.19	0.60	0.15	0.41
Feb	0.05	0.21	0.59	0.08	0.66
Mar	0.03	0.13	0.58	0.10	0.18
Apr	0.02	0.14	0.59	0.23	0.08
May	0.04	0.15	0.59	0.17	0.05
Jun	0.07	0.13	0.46	0.24	0.14
Jul	0.03	0.17	0.68	0.16	0.08
Aug	0.02	0.19	0.72	0.21	0.03
Sep	0.13	0.51	0.99	0.32	1.01
Oct	0.07	0.23	0.64	0.08	0.32
Nov	0.05	0.072	0.37	0.22	0.08
Dec	0.03	0.11	0.50	0.24	0.14
Yearly	0.018	0.14	0.6	0.37	0.23