In building design or research processes, building energy simulations are conducted using weather data. There are two types of the weather data for building energy simulations; one is the typical weather year (TWY) to estimate annual cooling/heating load and the other is the design weather data (DWD) to estimate maximum cooling/heating load. In this paper, we propose a new type of year weather data which can be used as both the reference weather year and design weather data, here called as the typical and design weather year (TDWY). The TDWY presented in this paper include each quantile values of multi-year observation data, which means that the TDWY is also used for the versatile design weather data. In this paper, we investigate more detailed property of the TDWY such as the simultaneity of each weather components.
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