Talk:Heat/cold degree days and Chill hours: Difference between revisions

From Cumulus Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
m (Discussion on degree day units)
mNo edit summary
 
(3 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
[mcrossley] 121130 15:06 - I think your explanation is incorrect. The units are not 'days' but 'degree-days'. So for one day if the temperature was a constant 15 degrees below the threshold, the HDD = 1day * 15 = 15 HDD
[[User:mcrossley|mcrossley]] 121130 15:06 - I think your explanation is incorrect. The units are not 'days' but 'degree-days'. So for one day if the temperature was a constant 15 degrees below the threshold, the HDD = 1day * 15 = 15 HDD


[[User:Sfws|Sfws]] 10:42, 1 December 2012 (UTC) Thanks Mark, I looked at http://www.erh.noaa.gov/cle/climate/info/degreedays.html and did a Cumulus Forum search. Neither really assisted me to understand the figures Cumulus generated for me, so I had a stab at explaining them to myself. Sunsequently, with 'write' rights, I thought something should be on the Wiki. Now I know I got it wrong, I will revise the text and should then get it right.
[[User:Sfws|Sfws]] 10:42, 1 December 2012 (UTC) Thanks Mark, I looked at http://www.erh.noaa.gov/cle/climate/info/degreedays.html, http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/normals_documentation_e.html#degree-days, and did a Cumulus Forum search. Neither really assisted me to understand the figures Cumulus generated for me, so I had a stab at explaining them to myself. Sunsequently, with 'write' rights, I thought something should be on the Wiki. Now I know I got it wrong, I will revise the text and should then get it right.

[[User:mcrossley|mcrossley]] 121201 10:46 - No problem, well done for contributing :)

Latest revision as of 10:44, 17 March 2014

mcrossley 121130 15:06 - I think your explanation is incorrect. The units are not 'days' but 'degree-days'. So for one day if the temperature was a constant 15 degrees below the threshold, the HDD = 1day * 15 = 15 HDD

Sfws 10:42, 1 December 2012 (UTC) Thanks Mark, I looked at http://www.erh.noaa.gov/cle/climate/info/degreedays.html, http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/normals_documentation_e.html#degree-days, and did a Cumulus Forum search. Neither really assisted me to understand the figures Cumulus generated for me, so I had a stab at explaining them to myself. Sunsequently, with 'write' rights, I thought something should be on the Wiki. Now I know I got it wrong, I will revise the text and should then get it right.

mcrossley 121201 10:46 - No problem, well done for contributing :)