Heating degree day spatial datasets for Canada
Heating degree days (HDD) represent a concise measure of heating energy requirements used to inform decision making about the impact of climate change on heating energy demand. This data paper presents spatial datasets of heating degree days (HDD) for Canada for two thirty-year periods, 1951–1980 an...
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| author | Heather MacDonald John Pedlar Daniel W. McKenney Kevin Lawrence Kaitlin de Boer Michael F. Hutchinson |
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| description | Heating degree days (HDD) represent a concise measure of heating energy requirements used to inform decision making about the impact of climate change on heating energy demand. This data paper presents spatial datasets of heating degree days (HDD) for Canada for two thirty-year periods, 1951–1980 and 1981–2010, using daily temperature gauge observations over these time periods. Stations with fewer than nine missing days in a year and greater than nine years of data over each thirty-year period were included, resulting in 1339 and 1679 stations for the 1951–1980 and 1981–2010 periods respectively. Mean absolute error (MAE) of the spatial models ranged from 124.2 Celsius degree days (C-days) for the 1951–1980 model (2.4% of the surface mean) to 137.6 C-days for the 1981–2010 model (2.7%). This note presents maps illustrating cross validation errors at a set of representative stations. The grids are available at ∼2 km resolutions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-969aa834a92b4e758210de8f781537be2023-08-13T04:54:21ZengElsevierData in Brief2352-34092023-08-0149109450Heating degree day spatial datasets for CanadaHeather MacDonald0John Pedlar1Daniel W. McKenney2Kevin Lawrence3Kaitlin de Boer4Michael F. Hutchinson5Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, P6A 2E5 1219 Queen Street East, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada; Corresponding author.Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, P6A 2E5 1219 Queen Street East, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, CanadaGreat Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, P6A 2E5 1219 Queen Street East, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, CanadaGreat Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, P6A 2E5 1219 Queen Street East, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, CanadaGreat Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, P6A 2E5 1219 Queen Street East, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, CanadaFenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, AustraliaHeating degree days (HDD) represent a concise measure of heating energy requirements used to inform decision making about the impact of climate change on heating energy demand. This data paper presents spatial datasets of heating degree days (HDD) for Canada for two thirty-year periods, 1951–1980 and 1981–2010, using daily temperature gauge observations over these time periods. Stations with fewer than nine missing days in a year and greater than nine years of data over each thirty-year period were included, resulting in 1339 and 1679 stations for the 1951–1980 and 1981–2010 periods respectively. Mean absolute error (MAE) of the spatial models ranged from 124.2 Celsius degree days (C-days) for the 1951–1980 model (2.4% of the surface mean) to 137.6 C-days for the 1981–2010 model (2.7%). This note presents maps illustrating cross validation errors at a set of representative stations. The grids are available at ∼2 km resolutions.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340923005504GridsRasterTemperatureSpatial datasetsHeating degree daysHDD |
| spellingShingle | Heather MacDonald John Pedlar Daniel W. McKenney Kevin Lawrence Kaitlin de Boer Michael F. Hutchinson Heating degree day spatial datasets for Canada Data in Brief Grids Raster Temperature Spatial datasets Heating degree days HDD |
| title | Heating degree day spatial datasets for Canada |
| title_full | Heating degree day spatial datasets for Canada |
| title_fullStr | Heating degree day spatial datasets for Canada |
| title_full_unstemmed | Heating degree day spatial datasets for Canada |
| title_short | Heating degree day spatial datasets for Canada |
| title_sort | heating degree day spatial datasets for canada |
| topic | Grids Raster Temperature Spatial datasets Heating degree days HDD |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340923005504 |
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