Development of enthalpy-based climate indicators for characterizing building cooling and heating energy demand under climate change

The global warming trend is considered to significantly reshape the energy budgets of buildings in the future. Traditional characterization indices (i.e., HDDs and CDDs) for residential cooling- and heating-related energy demand neglect the variability in the latent heat of humid air. In this study, with the incorporation of more reliable climate information, high-resolution enthalpy-based climate indicators (HEDs and CEDs) are developed to …