Seminar 52 -- LIVESTREAM: How Extreme and Future Weather Data Affect Building Energy Use

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The environmental challenges of climate change, such as rising surface temperature and frequent extreme weather conditions, increase the building energy usage and peak demands, extend the number of hours for heat stress, and therefore affect socially and economically disadvantaged communities. In this seminar, speakers present recent efforts in predicting future weather data and extreme heat wave events using the regional climate model WRF and the developed tools based on WRF. Urban energy modeling was employed to evaluate climate change’s impacts on energy and thermal comfort. The influence of climate change on socioeconomic inequality and energy policy is also discussed.

1. The Links between Climate Change and Environmental Justice< /br> Jeannie Kim, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL
2. Future Heat Wave Effects in Cold Versus Hot Climate Zones< /br> Daniel Villa, PE, Sandia National Laboratories, Alamo (virtual employee), TX
3. How Extreme and Future Weather Conditions Influence Anthropogenic Heat from the Building Stock in Los Angeles County< /br> Yujie Xu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA