A Statistical Approach to the Development of a Typical Meteorological Year for Hong Kong
- 1 December 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Architectural Science Review
- Vol. 39 (4), 201-209
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00038628.1996.9696818
Abstract
Measured hourly weather data for the 16-year period from 1979 to 1994 were analysed. Statistics techniques were used to develop a typical meteorological year (TMY) for building energy simulation. We used the Finkelstein-Schafer (FS) and the Kolmogrov-Smirnov (KS) two-sample statistics to analyse and select representative weather data for the formulation of a TMY for Hong Kong. Building energy computer simulations using DOE-2 were carried out. It was found that the monthly electricity consumption profile from the TMY was close to that from the 16-year long-term weather data. The root-mean-square error was 27.7MWb, 3.9% of the long-term mean monthly consumption. On an annual basis, TMY predicted 1.5% more consumption than the long-term.Keywords
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