Impact of typical weather year selection approaches on energy analysis of buildings

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 116 PART 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 416-427

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

BUILDING ENERGY ANALYSIS; BUILDING ENERGY USE; BUILDING SIMULATION; BUILDING SYSTEMS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; SELECTION PROCEDURES; TYPICAL WEATHER YEARS; WEIGHTING FACTORS;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

EID: 77954255086     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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