Climate warming impact on degree-days and building energy demand in Switzerland

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 671-686

  Christenson, M ^a   Manz, H ^a   Gyalistras, D ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Building energy demand; Climate scenarios; Cooling degree days; European Alpine region; Global warming; Heating degree days; Historical temperature trends

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COOLING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEATING;

CLIMATE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE WARMING; COOLING DEGREE-DAYS (CDD); HEATING DEGREE-DAYS (HDD);

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 29144454220     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2005.06.009     Document Type: Article

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