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Degree days – new free data from the Environmental Change Institute

Russell Layberry of the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, has been reviewing UK ‘degree day’ data and has developed a dataset that is more accurate than traditional sources (which are calculated from hourly Met Office data rather than daily maximum and minimum temperatures).

He explains his study in the current issue of Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, but the really good news for building services engineers and researchers working in this sector is that his new dataset – calculated for 77 regions, weekly and monthly, at a range of building base temperatures – is available free of charge at http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/research/energy/degreedays.php. The dataset is updated weekly.

Learn more:

	•	See ‘Degree days for building energy management — presentation of a new data set’ by RL Layberry, Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, Vol. 29, No. 3, 273-282 (2008), DOI: 10.1177/0143624408093886
	•	View the abstract at http://bse.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/29/3/273 NOTE: SAGE is offering FREE access to all its journals until 31 October.