Morphed extreme weather data for Vantaa and Sodankylä under RCP climate change scenarios by 2030, 2050 and 2080

Morphed extreme weather data for 2 Finnish locations: Vantaa and Sodankylä. Created for "Near-, medium- and long-term impacts of climate change on the thermal energy consumption of buildings in Finland under RCP climate scenarios" publication (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.131636). Used climate change scenarios are RPC2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. Data is created for 2030, 2050 and 2080 and includes 6 extreme weather scenarios: 

W1 - Winter with high heating demand

W2 - Winter with low heating demand

W3 - Winter with the coldest individual day by average temperature

S1 - Summer with the lowest cooling demand

S2 - Summer with the highest heating demand

S3 - Summer with the warmest individual day by average temperature

Selected years and the procedure for their selection are described in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.131636.

Original weather data is downloaded for the selected years from Finnish Meteorological Institute's Open data repository: https://www.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/havaintojen-lataus under CC BY 4.0 licence.

Future change in climate is based on Finnish Meteorological Institute's data used in creating Test Reference Year weather files (https://www.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/energialaskenta-try2020) for which the climate change data is presented by Ruosteenoja et al. (2016).

The data is statistically downscaled through a method called morphing created by Belcher et al. (2005) with some parts using methods from Räisänen & Räty (2013) and Jylhä et al, (2015). Morphing was computationally conducted through created software https://github.com/japulk/Weather-Morphing-Tool For additional information please refer to original article or contact the authors.