Please check the following:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261917300570

Regards,

Ricardo.

I assume you wish to do hourly temperature calibrations between your simulation model and actual interior temperatures.  This means that you are tracing measured hourly indoor temperatures (single point or by zones) against the modeled hourly temperatures at the same indoor points.  Also, this means that it will be mandatory to have actual measured outdoor hourly temperatures (and other climate data, including solar) during the same period as your measurements.  As to the period of calibration, I believe the energy calibration literature does suggest appropriate periods to conduct the comparisons in order to get a reliable annual calibration (i.e., sufficient months and/or seasons).

Best regards,

Larry

 Dear Larry Degelman,

Thank you very much for your support. The situation is very much similar to what you described, But I can't really get the literature which suggests appropriate periods and procedure to conduct temperature comparisons in order to get a reliable annual calibration. It would be of immense help if you could suggest some of these literature.

Thanking you,

Regards,

Niket

Hello again, Niket,

A couple papers that come to mind are ones presented at the BS conferences (in odd-numbered years) sponsored by IBPSA (International Building Performance Simulation Association.)  BTW, all BS conference papers are available in PDF format for free.  You can locate them at www.ibpsa.org, then click on International Conferences, then click on Publications > Papers Online > International. You might even find additional ones if you click on Regional - these are the papers from the regional affiliates of IBPSA, usually conducted in the even-numbered years.

True, these papers address energy calibration (not temperature calibration); however, there are suggestions about the measurement/calibration periods.  For example, one paper suggests using three periods (non consecutive) of one week each, representing cold, mild, and warm seasons.

Look for CALIBRATION PROCEDURE OF ENERGY PERFORMANCE SIMULATION MODEL FOR A COMMERCIAL BUILDING by Jong-HoYoon and Lee, presented at BS'99 in Kyoto. (http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BS1999/BS99_D-26.pdf).  A second one is LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE CALIBRATION OF FIVE BUILDING MODELS WITH TOTAL ELECTRIC DEMAND MEASUREMENT AT 15-MINUTE INTERVALS by Simon Sansregret and Lavigne, presented at BS'15 in Hyderabad, India. (http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BS2015/p2465.pdf).

There may be others that you could search for on the IBPSA web pages. The proceedings cover the 15 biennial conferences over the entire period of 1985 through 2015, and represent over a thousand papers.

The standards EN ISO 13791 and 13792 (now ISO 52017) provide standardised methods and validations cases  to validate the models calculating temperatures. See attached draft

Hello Niket!

that's a very important question you raised there, and there are very limited research papers that have dealt directly with this issue. Available protocols (such as ASHRAE) deals with energy data ony.

You'd want to have a read at the paper that i have on my profile where i expand on the available literature review and propose a way of dealing with this sort of thermal calibration.

Article Thermal Performance of Glazed Balconies within Heavy Weight/...

Have you ever worked with DesignBuilder software?

https://www.textroad.com/pdf/JBASR/J.%20Basic.%20Appl.%20Sci.%20Res.,%203(4)182-189,%202013.pdf

http://iafor.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/An-Analysis-of-Thermal-Comfort-and-Energy-Consumption-within-Public-Primary-Schools-in-Egypt.pdf