CBE Clima Tool:A free and open-source web application for climate analysis tailored to sustainable building design

作     者：Giovanni Betti Federico Tartarini Christine Nguyen Stefano Schiavon Giovanni Betti;Federico Tartarini;Christine Nguyen;Stefano Schiavon

作者机构：Center for the Built EnvironmentUniversity of California BerkeleyBerkeleyUSA Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in SingaporeSingaporeSingapore Heat and Health Research IncubatorFaculty of Medicine and HealthThe University of SydneyCamperdownAustralia College of Letters and SciencesUniversity of California BerkeleyBerkeleyUSA 

出 版 物：《Building Simulation》 (建筑模拟（英文）)

年 卷 期：2024年第17卷第3期

页      面：493-508页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 081203[工学-计算机应用技术] 08[工学] 070601[理学-气象学] 0706[理学-大气科学] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：We would like to acknowledge the work of the authors who contributed to the development of the CBE Clima Tool(https://github.com/Center For The Built Environment/clima/graphs/contributors).This research has been supported by the Center for the Built Environment at the University of California Berkeley and the Republic of Singapore’s National Research Foundation through a grant to the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore(BEARS)for the Singapore-Berkeley Building Efficiency and Sustainability in the Tropics(SinBerBEST)Program 

主　　题：architectural design climate analysis sustainable building design web application building energy simulation open-source software 

摘      要：Climate-responsive building design holds immense potential for enhancing comfort,energy efficiency,and environmental ***,many social,cultural,and economic obstacles might prevent the wide adoption of designing climate-adapted *** of these obstacles can be removed by enabling practitioners to easily access,visualize and analyze local climate *** CBE Clima Tool(Clima)is a free and open-source web application that offers easy access to publicly available weather files and has been created for building energy simulation and *** provides a series of interactive visualizations of the variables contained in the EnergyPlus Weather Files and several derived ones like the UTCI or the adaptive comfort *** is aimed at students,educators,and practitioners in the architecture and engineering *** its inception,Clima’s user base has exhibited robust growth,attracting over 25,000 unique users annually from across 70 *** tool is poised to revolutionize climate-adaptive building design,transcending geographical boundaries and fostering innovation in the architecture and engineering fields.