Evaluation of typical weather year selection approaches for energy analysis of buildings

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 115 PART 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 654-667

  Seo, Donghyun ^a   Huang, Joe ^b   Krarti, Moncef ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b White Box Technologies Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING SYSTEMS; ENERGY ANALYSIS; GLOBAL SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER DATA; WEIGHTING FACTORS;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; HEATING; SUN;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77950791419     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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