Proposed approach for defining climate regions for Turkey based on annual driving rain index and heating degree-days for building envelope design

Building and Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 520-526

  Sahal, Nil ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Climate regions; Driving rain; Driving rain index; Heating degree days; Moisture degradation

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; HEATING; MOISTURE; RAIN; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; THERMAL EFFECTS; WEATHERING;

CLIMATE REGIONS; DRIVING RAIN INDEX; HEATING DEGREE-DAYS; MOISTURE DEGRADATION; TURKEY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; INDEX METHOD; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 29744448729     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

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