TY - JOUR A1 - Alsaad, Hayder A1 - Hartmann, Maria A1 - Hilbel, Rebecca A1 - Völker, Conrad T1 - ENVI-met validation data accompanied with simulation data of the impact of facade greening on the urban microclimate JF - Data in Brief N2 - This dataset consists mainly of two subsets. The first subset includes measurements and simulation data conducted to validate the simulation tool ENVI-met. The measurements were conducted at the campus of the Bauhaus-University Weimar in Weimar, Germany and consisted of recording exterior air temperature, globe temperature, relative humidity, and wind velocity at 1.5 m at four points on four different days. After the measurements, the geometry of the campus was modelled and meshed; the simulations were conducted using the weather data of the measurements days with the aim of investigating the accuracy of the model. The second data subset consists of ENVI-met simulation data of the potential of facade greening in improving the outdoor environment and the indoor air temperature during heatwaves in Central European cities. The data consist of the boundary conditions and the simulation output of two simulation models: with and without facade greening. The geometry of the models corresponded to a residential buildings district in Stuttgart, Germany. The simulation output consisted of exterior air temperature, mean radiant temperature, relative humidity, and wind velocity at 12 different probe points in the model in addition to the indoor air temperature of an exemplary building. The dataset presents both vertical profiles of the probed parameters as well as the time series output of the five-day simulation duration. Both data subsets correspond to the investigations presented in the co-submitted article [1]. KW - Messung KW - Measurements KW - Simulations KW - ENVI-met KW - Living wall KW - Green facade KW - Simulation KW - OA-Publikationsfonds2022 Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220511-46455 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340922004048#! VL - 2022 IS - Volume 42, article 108200 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Teitelbaum, Eric A1 - Alsaad, Hayder A1 - Aviv, Dorit A1 - Kim, Alexander A1 - Völker, Conrad A1 - Meggers, Forrest A1 - Pantelic, Jovan T1 - Addressing a systematic error correcting for free and mixed convection when measuring mean radiant temperature with globe thermometers JF - Scientific reports N2 - It is widely accepted that most people spend the majority of their lives indoors. Most individuals do not realize that while indoors, roughly half of heat exchange affecting their thermal comfort is in the form of thermal infrared radiation. We show that while researchers have been aware of its thermal comfort significance over the past century, systemic error has crept into the most common evaluation techniques, preventing adequate characterization of the radiant environment. Measuring and characterizing radiant heat transfer is a critical component of both building energy efficiency and occupant thermal comfort and productivity. Globe thermometers are typically used to measure mean radiant temperature (MRT), a commonly used metric for accounting for the radiant effects of an environment at a point in space. In this paper we extend previous field work to a controlled laboratory setting to (1) rigorously demonstrate that existing correction factors used in the American Society of Heating Ventilation and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 55 or ISO7726 for using globe thermometers to quantify MRT are not sufficient; (2) develop a correction to improve the use of globe thermometers to address problems in the current standards; and (3) show that mean radiant temperature measured with ping-pong ball-sized globe thermometers is not reliable due to a stochastic convective bias. We also provide an analysis of the maximum precision of globe sensors themselves, a piece missing from the domain in contemporary literature. KW - Strahlungstemperatur KW - Mean radiant temperature KW - Globe thermometers KW - Indoor environment KW - Thermal comfort KW - Measurements KW - OA-Publikationsfonds2022 Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220509-46363 UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10172-5#citeas VL - 2022 IS - Volume 12, article 6473 PB - Springer Nature CY - London ER -