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posted on 2012-08-03, 13:12 authored by Monjur MourshedDegree-days are a versatile climatic indicator and used for many applications in the design and operation of energy
efficient buildings – from the estimation of energy consumption and carbon emissions due to space heating
and cooling to the energy and environmental monitoring of buildings. This research is aimed at developing an
equation for calculating degree-days from low-resolution temperature data by exploring the relationship between
degree-days and annual mean temperature of 5511 locations around the world, using multiple non-linear regression.
Results suggest a very strong relationship between annual mean temperature and degree-days. Incorporating
standard deviation (SD) of monthly mean temperature and latitude increases the accuracy of prediction (R2 > :99),
demonstrating the strength of the location-agnostic relationship in predicting degree-days from two temperature
parameters: annual mean and SD of monthly mean. Research findings can be used to calculate degree-days of locations,
for which daily temperature data may not be available. The equation can also be used to calculate degree-days
from low-resolution global circulation model (GCM) projections of increasing temperature, for investigating the impact
of climate change on building heating and cooling energy demand at global scale without the need to create
synthetic weather series through morphing or downscaling.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Citation
MOURSHED, M., 2012. Relationship between annual mean temperature and degree-days. Energy and Buildings, 54, pp.418-425.Publisher
© Elsevier B.V.Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2012Notes
This article was published in the journal, Energy and Buildings [© Elsevier B.V.] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.07.024ISSN
0378-7788Publisher version
Language
- en