Climate Characterization Methodology for Comfort Purposes: A Case in Mexico

This paper presents a climate characterization methodology for comfort purposes. The climate characterization is based on the measured climatic variables collected by a meteorological automatic station for 7 municipalities of the State of Morelos, Mexico. Then, a typical building in the State of Morelos is selected to calculate energy loads by two methodologies: the heating and cooling degree-days and TRNSYS for different micro-climate conditions of the 7 municipalities. The two methodologies are compared. Maps and graphs of monthly average temperatures, incident solar radiation, degree-days and energy loads are presented. The results show that, if we built the typical building built in Morelos, the center and south locations of the State of Morelos requires a very high amount of energy for cooling, 5528 KW-h. Also, the north of the State of Morelos requires an amount, 2130 KW-h, for heating in some municipalities for the same type of building.