CBE Clima Tool
Web application for climate data analysis and visualization
Last updated
Web application for climate data analysis and visualization
Last updated
The CBE Clima Tool is a web-based application built to support climate analysis specifically designed to support the need of architects and engineers interested in climate-adapted design. It allows users to analyze the climate data of more than 27,500 locations worldwide from both Energy Plus and Climate.One.Building.org. You can, however, also choose to upload your own EPW weather file. Our tool can be used to analyze and visualize data contained in EnergyPlus Weather (EPW) files. It furthermore calculates a number of climate-related values (i.e. solar azimuth and altitude, Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), comfort indices, etc.) that are not contained in the EPW files but can be derived from the information therein contained. It can be freely accessed at clima.cbe.berkeley.edu
If you use this tool please consider citing us. Betti, G., Tartarini, F., Nguyen, C, Schiavon, S. CBE Clima Tool: A free and open-source web application for climate analysis tailored to sustainable building design. Build. Simul. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-023-1090-5.
The CBE Clima Tool is open source. We have released the source code on a public repository. We welcome contributions from the community (more info here).
Learn more about the CBE Clima Tool by watching the following video.
This ongoing project results from the collaboration and contributions of the people listed below.
Giovanni Betti: Conceptualization, methodology, coding, review, supervision, and project administration
Federico Tartarini: Methodology, coding, review, supervision, and code maintenance
Stefano Schiavon: Conceptualization, review, supervision, project administration, and funding acquisition
Roberto Rugiani: Documentation
Christine Nguyen: Coding and methodology
Yunzhu Ji: Coding and review
Daniel Harris: Coding and review
Chun Him Lee: Coding and review
Tu Minh Phuong Doan: Coding and review
Yixun Quan: Coding and review
We would like to thank for their valuable feedback and support: Ed Arens, Dru Crawley, David Lehrer, Noah Pitts, and Hui Zhang. Clima has been supported by the Centre for the Built Environment at UC Berkeley at the University of California Berkeley and the Republic of Singapore's National Research Foundation for SinBerBEST Program.