Research on future weather data for designing building and equipment which are adaptable to climate change

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24560720
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Architectural environment/equipment
• Research Institution: Kagoshima University
• Principal Investigator: SOGA Kazuhiro 鹿児島大学, 理工学研究科, 教授 (00336322)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 気候変動 / シナリオ / 将来気象データ / 気象データ / 建築環境 / 建築設備 / シミュレーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

It would be useful for building designers to consider future climate change by using building thermal simulation to construct an adaptable building to global warming. Future weather data including future changes to climate is needed as an input data to conduct building thermal simulation under the future climate. In this study, a method to produce hourly future weather data is presented. The method combines real present hourly weather data with result from climate models. Hourly future weather data at 833 stations have been developed and applied to heat load calculation of office buildings in Japan.

Free Research Field

建築環境工学