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Evaluation of hourly temperature values using daily maximum, minimum and average values  

Lee, Kwan-Ho (School of Space Design, Ulsan College)
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Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society / v.29, no.5, 2009 , pp. 81-87 More about this Journal
Abstract
Computer simulation of buildings and solar energy systems is being used increasingly in energy assessments and design.. Building designers often now predict the performance of buildings simulation programmes that require hourly weather data. However, not all weather stations provide hourly data. Climate prediction models such as HadCM3 also provide the daily average dry bulb temperature as well as the maximum and minimum. Hourly temperature values are available for building thermal simulations that accounts for future changes to climate. In order to make full use of these predicted future weather data in building simulation programmes, algorithms for downscaling daily values to hourly values are required. This paper describes a more accurate method for generating hourly temperature values in the South Korea that uses all three temperature parameters from climate model. All methods were evaluated for accuracy and stability in terms of coefficient of determination and cumulative error. They were compared with hourly data collected in Seoul and Ulsan, South Korea.
Keywords
hourly temperature; CIBSE guide; Climate Change;
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