Comparison of Meteorological Climate Data Sets from Greater Žilina and their Influence on Temperatures within the Experimental Wall

Abstract

The experimental wall fragment (consisting of five different sections) was completed in 2010. Temperatures inside the sections had been recorded since. The laboratory centre of our department is also equipped with the own detached experimental weather station. In this paper, the outdoor boundary conditions obtained from the experimental weather station are compared to the automated weather station Dolny Hricov and to the phenological weather station in Zilina (with registering period of three times a day), both maintained by Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMU). For the comparison, there were selected 14 days from the years 2014-2016, to find some extremes. Differences between the data sets obtained from the stations were computed to each other and analysed in terms of boundary conditions for the HAM computer simulations. Differences between the temperatures under finish of the experimental wall fragment were found out by use of ESP-r software.

Outdoor Climate Change Analysis in University Campus: Case Study with Heat-Air-Moisture Simulation

“…It is situated on the open ground at the airport. Due to effect of urban heat islands the measured values differ from the habituated area [3].…”

“…The weather station is in operation from March 2014 with some minor malfunction or gaps during the data downloads, which were filled in by a linear interpolation. The partial data files from WS were compared to the data from National weather forecast institute in the previous papers, in terms of pure climate comparison and validation [12] and to results of simulation in ESP-r [3].…”

Urban Heat Island: Summer Outdoor Climate Measurement Within the University Campus and City

“…For this paper two of them were used, one is located in the city (named Zilina), another one is placed at the airport Zilina -Dolny Hricov (named Airport), which is out of the city (about 20 km far away) surrounded by meadows. This station was also used for the comparison in previous studies [2,3,25,26] and due to effect of urban heat islands the measured values differ from the habituated area. Used weather stations (WS) are marked in Fig.…”

“…Not only detailed outdoor boundary conditions [1-3], but also the material properties of used materials [3][4][5][6] and the used simulation tool and appropriate model from vast selection are important [7]. Several works deal with the accuracy of used outdoor climate [1,2,6,7]. Outdoor climate is highly influenced by existence of the urban heat island (UHI).…”