Generation of typical meteorological years for 33 locations in Greece: adaptation to the needs of various applications

Climate Change and Thermal Comfort in Greece

“…According to [25] "A TMY is a set of meteorological and irradiance parameters usually consisting of hourly values in a year for a given geographical location (https://e3p.jrc.ec. europa.eu/articles/typical-meteorological-year-tmy).…”

“…A TMY reflects all the climatic information of the location for a period as long as the mean life of the system." The aim of that study [25] was the development of TMYs for 5 different applications, i.e., TMY-meteorology-climatology (TMY-MC), TMY-bio-meteorology (TMY-BM), TMY-agro-meteorology-hydrology (TMY-AMH), TMY-PV applications (TMY-PV), and TMY-energy design of buildings (TMY-EDB); all these TMYs were generated for 33 sites in Greece in the frame of the "Development of synergistic and integrated methods and tools for monitoring, management and forecasting of environmental parameters and pressures" (KRIPIS-THESPIA-II) funded project, by using historical data of various meteorological parameters in the period 1985-2014 (30 years). During this project, TMYs-MC were also derived for future periods (2021-2050, 2046-2075, 2071-2100) for all 33 locations, not yet published.…”

“…The future TMYs-MC considered two opposing IPCC scenarios, i.e., the representative concentration pathway (RCP) 4.5 (intermediate scenario with an "anthropogenic" radiative forcing of 4.5 Wm −2 in the year 2100) and the RCP 8.5 (extreme scenario with an "anthropogenic" radiative forcing of 8.5 Wm −2 in the year 2100). For the TMY-generation statistical procedure one may refer to [25]. Since TMYs-MC have been derived for both the historical and the future time periods, they are used in the present work.…”

“…The horizontal resolution of the RCA4 model was 0.11 • (~12 × 12 km). The meteorological and global horizontal radiation data for the future periods 2021-2050, 2046-2075, and 2071-2100 were provided from ECO-CORDEX to the KRIPIS-THESPIA-II project; therefore, corresponding TMYs-MC were derived following the statistical procedure described in [25]. The presentation of these future TMYs-MC will be the subject of a separate publication, which is in preparation.…”

“…Therefore, the present work aims at filling this gap in the case of Greece. A second innovation of the study is the use of typical meteorological years (TMYs); such TMYs have been developed for 33 sites in Greece [25].…”