Online Journals   Subscriptions   Authors   Users   Librarians   About Earthscan 

Advances in Building Energy Research

Advances in Building Energy Research 1 (2007) 89–103


Typical Weather Years and the Effect of Urban Microclimate on the Energy Behaviour of Buildings and HVAC Systems

S Oxizidis, A V Dudek and N Aquilina


Abstract

Building simulation programs require climate information in the form of hourly based typical weather years assembled from meteorological measurements. A thorough description of these weather data sets is presented in this paper followed by a classification based on the way they are derived from monitored data and a comparison between the different types. Finally, we analyse the efforts made to deliver urban specific climatic data to assess the effect of urban microclimate on buildings.

Keywords: typical weather years; urban climate; building simulation



download full article





Print ISSN 1751-2549
Online ISSN 1756-2201