Assessing the risk of climate change for buildings: A comparison between multi-year and probabilistic reference year simulations

Building and Environment

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1303-1308

  Kershaw, T ^a   Eames, M ^a   Coley, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Reference years; Thermal simulation; UKCP09; Weather files; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

REFERENCE YEARS; THERMAL SIMULATIONS; UKCP09; WEATHER FILES; WEATHER GENERATOR;

BUILDINGS; CLIMATE MODELS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79551613750     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.12.018     Document Type: Article

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