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mperatture Charts
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Tem
mperaturee data cann be repressented in a variety ways.
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Fullly utilizinng temperrature chaarts
willl help info
form your design deecisions and
a make sure you are considdering all the data.

Tabular tempeerature data can bee clearly representted in a variety of different

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charts.

Mo
onthly D
Design Tempe
eraturess
Of course,
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tempperatures arre not alwayys consistennt at the sam
me time of day
d or year. Designs thhat always
achiieve occupaant comfort must considder extremee circumstannces as welll as averagee conditionss.

Monthly temperature
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design data graph
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(from
Autodesk Reviit)

Thee graph abovve shows not

n only moonthly tempeeratures aveeraged from
m historical climate datta, but also two
leveels of uncom
mmon extrem
mes.
Thee green boxees show the historical averages
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of monthly highest and lo
owest dry bulb
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temperaatures; yourr site
is viirtually guaaranteed to experience
e
t
these
tempeeratures in thhese monthhs, so they must
m be desiigned for.
Thee extensionss of the boxxes show extreme
e
tem
mperatures only
o
recordded 1% of the
t time in historical data.
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You
ur site is nott likely to exxperience thhese often, but
b for a robbust design
n, you should
d consider them.
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You ca
an see that this site has significantly lesss variation than thee previous graph. Inn April, a peak tempperature of 64 F haas occurred, but gen
nerally the temperaature range will be between
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48 and
a 57 F for the m
month.

Diurnal W
Weathe
er Averages
Diu
urnal temperrature data shows dailly cycles of temperatuure and raddiation on th
he site. Thee data typiccally
includes dry buulb temperaature, wet bulb
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temperrature, direcct solar radiiation, and diffuse
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solaar radiation as a
daily average ffor each moonth. From this data yo
ou can studdy the differrence betweeen dry bullb and wet bulb
tem
mperatures ((relative huumidity indicator), thee differencee between nighttime temperature
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es and day
ytime
tem
mperatures (kknown as th
he diurnal swing),
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and solar radiattion patternss in addition
n to much more.
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Thiss diurnal weeather chartt from Revitt is from Naashville, TN

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An
nnual Te
empera
ature Bins
For some sites,, heating wiill dominatee your desig
gn requiremeents most of the year; for
f other sittes cooling will
w
dom
minate. Youu can quicklly see what temperatures are experrienced at your
y
site mo
ost often by looking at a
histo
ogram of teemperature throughout
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the year. This
T is referrred to as tem
mperature bins.
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Annua
al temperature bins for
f a colder site, mostly requiring heatting for comfort. Th
he graph also displaays the frequency off wet bulb and dry bulb
b
temperatures, suggesting
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the climaate does
not have humid summ
mers.
(Graaph from Autodesk Revit)
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