Published May 26, 2021 | Version v1
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Extreme Warm Year (EWY) for building energy simulations (.epw format) in future climate (2069-2098 - RCP 8.5), Uccle, Belgium

Creators

  • 1. Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering Science, KU Leuven
  • 2. Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Environmental Modelling Unit, Mol, Belgium
  • 3. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, KU Leuven

Description

Extreme Warm Year (EWY), based on the methodology of Nik (2016), is extracted for the location of Uccle (50°47'49"N 4°21'29" E) from the EC-Earth driven convection-permitting climate model COSMO-CLM for the Belgian domain extended with land-surface scheme TERRA_URB(v2.0) making use of the SURY (Semi-empirical URban canopY) parameterization ( Wouters et al. 2016).  The integrations are identical to the ones which are described in Vanden Broucke et al. (2019). The climate model has a spatial resolution of 2.8 km and an hourly temporal resolution and is available for the recent past (1976-2004) and future (2070-2098) as 30-year datasets. For this dataset, the EWY is extracted for the future period. A bias correction is applied for the following variables: temperature (as described in Ramon et al. 2020), solar radiation and relative humidity as described in Ramon et al. (202X).

Notes

This work was supported by Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) [1S97418N] and is part of the Ph.D. research 'Towards future-proof buildings in Flanders: Climate and Life Cycle modelling for resilient office buildings'. The climate model data used is the result of the CORDEX.be project funded by the Belgian federal government (Belgian Science Policy Office project BR/143/A2/CORDEX.be) and can be requested via nicole.vanlipzig@kuleuven.be. Computational resources for these integrations were provided by the VSC (Flemish Supercomputer Centre), funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) and the Flemish Government - department EWI. The hourly observational data for the bias correction were provided by RMI (Belgian Royal Meteorological Institute).

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References

  • Ramon, D., Allacker, K., De Troyer, F., Wouters, H., & van Lipzig, N. P. (2020). Future heating and cooling degree days for Belgium under a high-end climate change scenario. Energy and Buildings, 216, 109935.
  • Nik, V. M. (2016). Making energy simulation easier for future climate–Synthesizing typical and extreme weather data sets out of regional climate models (RCMs). Applied Energy, 177, 204-226.
  • H. Wouters, M. Demuzere, U. Blahak, K. Fortuniak, B. Maiheu, J. Camps, D. Tielemans, N.P.M. Van Lipzig, The efficient urban canopy dependency parametrization (SURY) v1.0 for atmospheric modelling: Description and application with the COSMO-CLM model for a Belgian summer, Geosci. Model Dev. 9 (2016) 3027–3054. doi:10.5194/gmd-9-3027-2016.
  • S. Vanden Broucke, H. Wouters, M. Demuzere, N.P.M. van Lipzig, The influence of convection-permitting regional climate modeling on future projections of extreme precipitation: dependency on topography and timescale, Clim. Dyn. (2019). doi:10.1007/s00382-018-4454-2.
  • Ramon, D., Allacker K. (202X) Integrated assessment method for climate resilient buildings: framework and application on a Flemish office building. In preparation.