Climate

Climate change is the long-term variation in the mean conditions and/or time variability of – for example – temperature, humidity, and precipitation. We use climate data to build indices of mean climate and extreme conditions that influence the use of energy.

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Malcolm Mistry / Settembre 3, 2020 1:04 pm

Historical dataset of Human Discomfort Indices

We just released a brand new historical dataset of 10 Human Discomfort daily indices based on NASA GLDAS, for the period 1970-2018, at 0.25° x 0.25° global gridded resolution...

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Lorenza Campagnolo / Gennaio 7, 2020 3:21 pm

Can the Paris Agreement support achieving the Sustainable Development Goals?

Our analysis considers 27 indicators, including 16 SDGs, collected for world countries in the past 30 years. We investigated through statistical techniques how these values are actually correlated with significant socioeconomic variables and designed scenarios to obtain SDG indicator projections up to 2030.

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Malcolm Mistry / Ottobre 22, 2019 9:37 am

Historical Degree Days

Degree-days have been routinely used by building designers and engineers to estimate indoor space cooling energy consumption and by policy makers and researchers for forecasting energy demand, consumption patterns and associated carbon emissions. This is partly rooted in their simplicity but yet powerful capability to represent a relationship between climate and cooling or heating requirements.... Continue reading →

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Jacopo Crimi / Luglio 10, 2019 11:08 am

The weather is not the climate but…

… when it comes to communication, “the weather still has one big advantage over every other argument about the urgency of climate change: We experience the weather. We see it and feel it.”

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Jagu Dattakiran / Giugno 10, 2019 10:34 am

Maximum temperatures are above 45°C at most places over Rajasthan; at many places West Madhya Pradesh and Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi; at some places over East Madhya Pradesh and isolated places over Uttar Pradesh. Highest max. temp. : 48.5°C at Ganganagar ( West Rajasthan). pic.twitter.com/Iw06SYwyYp
— India Met. Dept. (@Indiametdept) June 9, 2019

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Malcolm Mistry / Marzo 27, 2019 1:59 pm

71 Climate Extreme Indices in 1 dataset

We just released a set of 71 indices of temperature and precipitation extremes, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization and based on Global Land Data Assimilation System, at high resolution and for the period 1970-2016...

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Enrica De Cian / Febbraio 1, 2019 11:08 am

A carbon tax with compensation programs

Because hopefully, we won't rely exclusively on Adaptation to tackle climate change but also on Mitigation! I gave a brief interview on the matter to one of the main italian broadcast radio...

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Enrica De Cian / Novembre 5, 2018 4:15 pm

We are dealing with a lot of data

...and we plan to make them all available as far we don't infringe any copyright laws, but when we can't, we will publicly publish some aggregate data based on our analysis. Read how...

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Malcolm Mistry / Agosto 7, 2018 12:55 pm

Cooling Degree days and Heating degree days

Put simply, a Cooling Degree Day is the outdoor temperature above which a building would not require cooling... Let's see what are the formal definitions we will use in this project and why do we really need them to set the basis of our work...

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Malcolm Mistry / Agosto 7, 2018 11:46 am

Why do we study these countries?

The four main countries we are focusing on in ENERGYA – namely Brazil, India, Indonesia and Mexico - vary not only in terms of size, but also in mean climatology. Moreover, their seasonal patterns and variations in mean climate show a great heterogeneity...

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Enrica De Cian / Luglio 15, 2018 10:39 am

An awesome team for a great project!

Here we are! Let's start this new adventure with our awesome team. Come to see who we are and what we do...

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Enrica De Cian / Luglio 9, 2018 9:18 pm

The big difference between the heatwaves of 1976 and 2018.
June 1976: the UK was one of the warmest places relative to normal across the globe, with most areas cooler than average.
June 2018: the UK was just another warm blob in a mostly warmer than normal world.#GlobalHeatwave. pic.twitter.com/eIsj7glEiE
— Simon Lee (@SimonLeeWx) July 22, 2018