The need for cooling will overtake heating in the next decade – the exact year depends on what indoor temperature is chosen for comfort and health.
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...
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.
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
… 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.”
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
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...
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...
...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...
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...
