Research Article

Influence of Urban Microclimate on Air-Conditioning Energy Needs and Indoor Thermal Comfort in Houses

Table 6

  and   for naturally ventilated living room and bedroom at each site.

ItemWeather dataSelected sites
ABCDEFGHIJ

Living room
Obser.391516408326381526464311360432
Morph.420 536 428 365 439 546 497 364 416 435
Error7.4 3.9 4.9 12.0 15.2 3.8 7.1 17.0 15.6 0.7
Obser.485 684 512 400 474 698 595 374 447 546
Morph.548 738 562 460 591 765 667 462 545 575
Error12.9 7.8 9.7 15.0 24.5 9.6 12.2 23.3 21.8 5.3

Master bedroom
Obser.357 625 374257311596491205305445
Morph.460 680 480 341 508 720 588 334 451 508
Error28.9 8.8 28.3 32.7 63.3 20.8 19.8 62.9 47.9 14.2
Obser.417 764 437 296 365 727 582 234 355 524
Morph.556 864 582 403 631 927 733 400 548 617
Error33.4 13.1 33.2 36.3 73.0 27.4 26.0 70.5 54.4 17.6

Unit:   in hour;   in °C-hour; error in %.