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Advances in Building Energy Research
Advances in Building Energy Research 1 (2007) 89–103
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Typical Weather Years and the Effect of Urban Microclimate on the Energy Behaviour of Buildings and HVAC Systems
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S Oxizidis, A V Dudek and N Aquilina
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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
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