Preparation of future weather data to study the impact of climate change on buildings

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 793-800

  Guan, Lisa ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Building simulation; Climate change; Future weather data

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CLIMATOLOGY;

BUILDING SIMULATION; BUILDING SYSTEMS; BUILT ENVIRONMENTS; CLIMATIC DATUMS; DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS; ENERGY EVALUATIONS; EXTERNAL-; FUTURE WEATHER DATA; KEY CHARACTERS; METEOROLOGICAL INPUTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT;

EID: 57849127110     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.05.021     Document Type: Article

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