Abstract
Temperature and other meteorological parameters, including wind velocity and solar radiation, have been examined to determine their individual and combined effects on fuel requirements. Regression methods established a correlation coefficient of 0.89 between standard degree-days and gas consumption for 147 days during the 1951–52 heating season. A temperature-refined and wind-adjusted degree-day yielded a correlalation coefficient of 0.94, a material improvement in estimating the heating load.
Based on a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Presented on 10 September 1958 at the Second National Conference on Applied Meteorology: Engineering, at Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Paper No. 6 on Topics in Applied Meteorology from the Meteorological Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Murphy, A.H. (1960). Engineering Meteorology: Meteorology and Heating Load Requirements. In: Topics in Engineering Meteorology. Meteorological Monographs, vol 4. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-940033-39-6_12
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