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Development Of A National Anthropogenic Heating Database With An Extrapolation For International Cities, David J. Sailor, Matei Georgescu, Jeffrey M. Milne, Melissa A. Hart

Mechanical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Given increasing utility of numerical models to examine urban impacts on meteorology and climate, there exists an urgent need for accurate representation of seasonally and diurnally varying anthropogenic heating data, an important component of the urban energy budget for cities across the world. Incorporation of anthropogenic heating data as inputs to existing climate modeling systems has direct societal implications ranging from improved prediction of energy demand to health assessment, but such data are lacking for most cities. To address this deficiency we have applied a standardized procedure to develop a national database of seasonally and diurnally varying anthropogenic heating profiles …