Energy Performance of Buildings Due to Downscaled Seasonal Models

The current paper presents an extensive bottom-up framework for assessing building sector-specific vulnerability to climate change: energy supply and demand. The research focuses on the application of downscaled seasonal models for estimating energy performance of buildings in Greece. The ARW-WRF model has been set-up and suitably parameterized to produce downscaled climatological fields for Greece, forced by the output of the CFSv2 model. The outer domain, D01/Europe, included 345 x 345 cells of horizontal resolution 20 x 20 km2 and the inner domain, D02/Greece, comprised 180 x 180 cells of 5 x 5 km2 horizontal resolution. The model run has been setup for a period with a forecast horizon of 6 months, storing outputs on a six hourly basis.

Authors:

• Anastasia K. Eleftheriadou
• Athanasios Sfetsos
• Nikolaos Gounaris

Keywords:

• Urban environment
• vulnerability
• climate change
• energy performance
• seasonal forecast models.

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