Transforming existing weather data for worldwide locations to enable energy and building performance simulation under future climates

Renewable Energy

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 514-524

  Jentsch, Mark F ^a   James, Patrick A B ^b   Bourikas, Leonidas ^b   Bahaj, AbuBakr S ^b  

^a BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Simulation weather data; Weather data generation tool; Weather data morphing

Indexed keywords

BUILDING PERFORMANCE; BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATIONS; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; ENERGYPLUS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MORPHING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SMOOTHING EFFECTS; SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS; UNITED KINGDOM; WEATHER DATA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

METEOROLOGY;

BUILDING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; SOLAR POWER;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84873655924     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.12.049     Document Type: Article

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