Data from: Cooking, heating, insulating products and services (CHIPS) for Mongolian ger: Reducing energy, cost, and indoor air pollution

This data represents several experiments conducted on Ger for UNICEF
Mongolia's Ger of the 21st Century Project. The aims of that porject
were to improve the thermal performance of ger (or "yurts" in
Russian) to decrease air pollution in Mongolia. Four main experiments were
conducted for that project. In the 2018-2019 winter, data was collected on
the Penn Ger, an experimental ger built at the University of
Pennsylvania's Pennovation research campus. Several experiments were
conducted on this ger to evaluate different experimental techniques and
protocals that could be deployed in Mongolia. During the 2018-2019 winter,
the 2018-2019 Test Ger were built on a ranch near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
These ger tested different thermal interventions that might be applied
broadly in Mongolia. Also during the 2018-2019 winter, five occupied ger
in the ger districts north of Ulaanbaatar, the 2018-2019 Occupied Ger,
were monitored to understand baseline thermal and indoor environmental
data in ger. Finally, during the 2019-2020 winter, eight ger and a bashin
(a traditional Mongolian stick built house), the 2019-2020 Bayankhongor
Ger, were evaluated in Bayankhongor, Mongolia. These ger were outfitted
with a set of thermal improvements to evaluate their thermal performance.
The goal was to demonstrate that these thermal inverventions could
decrease energy use and make electric heating cost effective for wider
deployment across Mongolia.