Dataset for “The week that will be: communicating climate change and the impact of climate change via extreme weeks”

The data set contain localized current and future heat waves for use in thermal modelling of buildings across the UK. The weather data is in the format of EnergyPlus Weather (.epw) which was developed for building simulation programs. The building simulation weather file contains 8,760 hours of all the thermally related weather variables such as dry-bulb temperature, dewpoint temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, direct and diffuse solar radiation, wind direction and speed. The weather file contains an Example Extreme Week (EEW), i.e., weather data from an extremely hot seven-day contiguous period. The initial date of the EEW is mentioned in the comment line of the weather file. The weather files are available for current and future time slices: 1970s (1961 to 1990) and 2080s (2079 to 2099) with three return periods (10, 20 and 50 years) and one baseline period. Hence, there are six extreme weather files and one baseline weather file in each subfolder. These weather files are available at a 5 km grid resolution across the UK. In total, there are 11326 grid locations aggregated into three zip files: TYPE_J01 (3,775 grids), TYPE_J02 (3,775 grids), and TYPE_J03 (3,776 grids). The grid number, latitude, longitude and elevation for each of 11326 grid locations can be found in ‘GridID_Lat_Long_Elev.csv’.

该数据集包含针对英国各地区当前及未来热浪的本地化数据，旨在支持建筑热模拟研究。数据以 EnergyPlus 天气文件格式（.epw）呈现，该格式专为建筑模拟程序开发。建筑模拟天气文件包含了8,760小时的各类热力学相关气象变量，例如干球温度、露点温度、相对湿度、大气压力、直射和散射太阳辐射、风向和风速。该天气文件包含一个示例极端周（EEW），即连续七天的极端高温天气数据。EEW的初始日期记录在天气文件的注释行中。数据集提供当前和未来时间段的天气文件，包括1970年代（1961年至1990年）和2080年代（2079年至2099年），每个时间段均包含三种重现期（10年、20年和50年）及一个基线期。因此，每个子目录中均包含六个极端天气文件和一个基线天气文件。这些天气文件以5公里网格分辨率覆盖整个英国。总计有11,326个网格位置，这些位置被汇总为三个ZIP文件：TYPE_J01（3,775个网格）、TYPE_J02（3,775个网格）和TYPE_J03（3,776个网格）。每个网格位置编号、纬度、经度和海拔高度信息可从‘GridID_Lat_Long_Elev.csv’文件中查得。