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Heating & Cooling Degree Days : Mean monthly and mean annual heating and cooling degree days data (base climatological dataset, 1961-1990)

Created 07/10/2024

Updated 07/10/2024

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Average monthly and annual heating and cooling degree days grids. The grids show the heating and cooling degree day values across Australia in the form of two-dimensional array data. The average monthly and annual data is based on the standard 30-year period 1961-1990, and uses temperature data from approximately 350 weather stations. Heating and cooling degree days are based on the average daily temperature. The average daily temperature is calculated as follows: [maximum daily temperature + minimum daily temperature]; If the average daily temperature falls below comfort levels, heating is required; and if it is above comfort levels, cooling is required. The heating degree days or cooling degree days are determined by the difference between the average daily temperature and the comfort level temperature. The comfort level values used are 12 and 18 degrees Celsius for heating and 18 and 24 degrees Celsius for cooling. For example, if heating is being considered to a temperature comfort level of 18 degrees, and the average daily temperature for a particular location was 14 degrees, then heating equivalent to 4 degrees (4 heating degree days) would be required to maintain a temperature of 18 degrees for that day. However if the average daily temperature was 20 degrees then no heating would be required, so the number of heating degree days for that day would be zero. If cooling is being considered to a temperature comfort level of 24 degrees, and if the average temperature for a day was 27 degrees, then cooling equivalent to 3 degrees (3 cooling degree days) would be required to maintain a temperature of 24 degrees for that day. However if the average temperature was 21 degrees, then no cooling would be required, so the number of cooling degree days for that day would be zero.

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Title Heating & Cooling Degree Days : Mean monthly and mean annual heating and cooling degree days data (base climatological dataset, 1961-1990)
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/867fd1db-bda7-427f-90a5-c44b505fbe63
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Bureau of Meteorology
climatedata@bom.gov.au
Reference Period 03/03/2017
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[160.05, -45.05], [109.95, -45.05], [109.95, -8.95], [160.05, -8.95], [160.05, -45.05]]]}
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This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "Heating & Cooling Degree Days : Mean monthly and mean annual heating and cooling degree days data (base climatological dataset, 1961-1990)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/heating-cooling-degree-days-mean-monthly-and-mean-annual-heating-and-cooling-degree-d-1961-1990

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