Morphed extreme weather data for Vantaa and Sodankylä under RCP climate change scenarios by 2030, 2050 and 2080

<p>Morphed extreme weather data for 2 Finnish locations: Vantaa and Sodankyl&auml;. Created for "Near-, medium- and long-term impacts of climate change on the thermal energy consumption of buildings in Finland under RCP climate scenarios" publication (<a title="Persistent link using digital object identifier" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.131636" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.131636</span></a>). Used climate change scenarios are RPC2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. Data is created for 2030, 2050 and 2080 and includes 6 extreme weather scenarios:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>W1 - Winter with high heating demand</li> <li>W2 - Winter with low heating demand</li> <li>W3 - Winter with the&nbsp;coldest individual day by average temperature</li> <li>S1 - Summer with the lowest cooling demand</li> <li>S2 - Summer with the highest heating demand</li> <li>S3 - Summer with the warmest individual day by average temperature</li> </ul> <p>Selected years and the procedure for their selection are described in <a title="Persistent link using digital object identifier" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.131636" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.131636</span></a>.</p> <p>Original weather data is downloaded for the selected years from Finnish Meteorological Institute's Open data repository:&nbsp;https://www.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/havaintojen-lataus under CC BY 4.0 licence.</p> <p>Future change in climate is based on Finnish Meteorological Institute's data used in creating Test Reference Year weather files (<a href="https://www.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/energialaskenta-try2020">https://www.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/energialaskenta-try2020</a>) for which the climate change data is presented by Ruosteenoja et al. (2016).</p> <p>The data is statistically downscaled through a method called morphing created by Belcher et al. (2005)&nbsp;with some parts using methods from R&auml;is&auml;nen &amp; R&auml;ty (2013) and Jylh&auml; et al, (2015). Morphing was computationally conducted through created software <a href="https://github.com/japulk/Weather-Morphing-Tool">https://github.com/japulk/Weather-Morphing-Tool</a>&nbsp;For additional information please refer to <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.131636">original article</a> or contact the authors.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>