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Climate Factors Affecting Comfort

The document provides an overview of climatology, emphasizing the importance of climate in the physical life of living beings. It distinguishes between weather and climate, outlines factors influencing climate such as solar radiation, temperature, and humidity, and describes how these factors interact to create diverse climatic conditions. Additionally, it lists reference books for further reading on climatic design and housing.

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Climate Factors Affecting Comfort

The document provides an overview of climatology, emphasizing the importance of climate in the physical life of living beings. It distinguishes between weather and climate, outlines factors influencing climate such as solar radiation, temperature, and humidity, and describes how these factors interact to create diverse climatic conditions. Additionally, it lists reference books for further reading on climatic design and housing.

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BUILDING CLIMATOLOGY

CLIMATE AND HUMAN COMFORT Module 1


CLIMATOLOGY
Scientific study of Earth’s climate and the factors that affect past, present,
and future climatic changes.

Why?
Climate is an active factor in the physical life of all living beings.
WEATHER -The weather of a place CLIMATE -Integrated weather condition
represents the state of the atmospheric over several years is generally referred to as
environment over a brief period of time. climate.
WORLD CLIMATIC
ZONES
Climate can be derived by two sets of
factors
INVARIABLE FACTORS VARIABLE FACTORS
Latitude Temperature
Longitude Rainfall
Distance from sea or major water body Wind direction and wind velocity
Terrain altitude Atmospheric pressure
Humidity
Factors that determine climate of a place
The interaction of solar radiation with the atmosphere and the gravitational forces, together with the
distribution of land and sea masses, produces an almost infinite variety of climates.

(A) Solar radiation- Solar radiation is the radiant energy received from the sun. It is the intensity of sunrays falling per unit
time per unit area and is usually expressed in Watts per square metre (W/m2).

(B)Ambient temperature- The temperature of air in a shaded (but well ventilated) enclosure is known as the ambient
temperature; it is generally expressed in degree Celsius (ºC).

(C)Air humidity- which represents the amount of moisture present in the air, is usually expressed in terms of ‘relative
humidity’. Relative humidity is defined as the ratio of the mass of water vapour in a certain volume of moist air at a given
temperature, to the mass of water vapour in the same volume of saturated air at the same temperature; it is normally expressed as
a percentage.
Factors that determine climate of a place
(D) Precipitation- Precipitation includes water in all its forms rain, snow, hail or dew.
(E) Wind- Wind is the movement of air due to a difference in atmospheric pressure, caused by differential heating of land and
water mass on the earth’s surface by solar radiation and rotation of earth.

(F) Sky condition- Sky condition generally refers to the extent of cloud cover in the sky or the duration of sunshine.
Reference Books
▪Koenisberger, O. H., TG Ingersoll, Alan Mayhew, SV Szokolay, Manual of Tropical Housing and
Building – Climatic Design, Orient Longman Pvt Ltd, Chennai, 2003.
▪Bansal N.K. and Minke G., Climatic zones and rural housing in India, Kernforschungsanlage,
Juelich,Germany, 1988.
▪Energy conservation building code (ECBC) user guide

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