The suitability of high resolution downscaled seasonal models for the energy assessment of the building sector

In this work the application of the above mentioned methodological approach in the assessment of the energy performance and requirements of buildings on Greece are presented, for a period and with a forecast horizon of 6 months. The ARW-WRF model has been set up and validated to produce downscaled climatological fields for Greece, forced by the output of the CFSv2 model, with a horizontal spatial resolution of 5 km × 5 km. The data, that covered all Greek regions and climatology zones according to the existing building regulations code and the region elevation present a very reasonable correlation with data published in previous studies.