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Emerging Technology: Weather Data for Building Design:
Predicting the Future
Jim Bradburn, PE Associate Vice President
HGA Architects and Engineers
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Source: HGA
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Smart Panel with 42 Circuits and mini CT's
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Typical Meteorological Year
Source: HGA
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General Circulation Model 1990
1995
2001
2007
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Statistical Downscaling
TMY FMY GCM
RCP Year
Percentile
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Dynamic Downscaling
TMY FMY RCM
RCP Year
Percentile
GCM
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HGA • Resiliency Planning • Future weather visualization • Improved methodology
Jim Bradburn, PE
www.hga.com
“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”
– George Box, 1987, Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces
[email protected] HGA Architects and Engineers
Associate Vice President
