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Dubai Local Climate Data
Studying the climate of Dubai will help to achieve a better understanding the climate and natural
factors like radiation, wind velocity, relative humidity, temperature and other factors that may
affect the thermal comfort. And by studying these factors and adapting well designed strategies,
controlling the effects of these factors on thermal comfort is possible. Figure 3 shows a climatic
summary for the city of Dubai, it illustrates weather factors including radiation, temperature and
wind velocity.

Figure 3: Dubai Climate Data. (Autodesk 2010)

Dry Bulb and Wet Bulb Temperature Analysis
The chart in Figure 4 illustrates hourly averages of dry bulb temperature, wet bulb temperature
and radiation for the months of the year. The chart illustrates temperatures are not within the
comfort zone most of the year, and the difference between the dry bulb temperature and wet
bulb temperature is huge especially in the hot summer months of the year and mostly in July
and August. This difference will act perfectly with the concept of evaporative cooling that will be
discussed in another section of this report in details.

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