Annual number of Cooling Degree Days (1990-2015 average), version 1.0, Jan. 2019
Description
The dataset presents the annual number of Cooling Degree Days (CDD) in average for the period 1990-2015, for a series of individual European cities from Eurostat's Urban Audit 2011-2014 spatial dataset, based on the E-OBS dataset from the EU-FP6 project ENSEMBLES (http://ensembles-eu.metoffice.com) and around 10,000 meteorological stations across Europe.
This dataset has been used in the EEA Report No 22/2018 "Unequal exposure and unequal impacts: social vulnerability to air pollution, noise and extreme temperatures in Europe" (https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/unequal-exposure-and-unequal-impacts/at_download/file), where CDD is defined as the sum of the difference in degrees between 21 °C and the mean temperature over the year, for the days when the mean daily temperature is higher than 21 °C.
The number of CDDs is useful in differentiating between areas based on the need for cooling homes or workplaces. As a measurement designed to quantify the demand for energy needed to cool a building in order to keep it at a comfortable temperature, it is relevant to issues of thermal comfort and energy affordability.
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/metoffice_v_3857_100_k_cooling-degree-days_p_1990-2015_v01_r00/ |
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/da3f3ad6-f582-4577-8e96-bfc7421f937e |
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https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/knowledge/tools/urban-adaptation |
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https://climate.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/UAMV/CoolingDegreeDays/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS |