Indoor Environment and Occupant Behavior in Italian Homes During Summer 2019

A longitudinal monitoring campaign from June to September 2019 collected data on indoor environment, thermal comfort, and occupant adaptive behavior in residential settings in Catania, Italy. The data covers a period that included five heat health warnings and two heatwaves during the summer of 2019. It was used for a PhD thesis at the University of Bath authored by Elisabetta Maria Patanè.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between thermal mass and indoor temperature fluctuations based on longitudinal environmental monitoring.
• Analyzing occupant adaptive behavior (e.g., window opening, AC use) in response to heatwaves based on survey data.
• Assessing summer thermal comfort in residential buildings within a Csa (Mediterranean) climate zone.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of air-conditioning on occupant comfort during extreme heat events mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data collection covers a specific summer season (07/06/2019 to 19/09/2019) with documented extreme weather events.
• The study design is longitudinal, capturing temporal dynamics of indoor environment and behavior.
• Geographic and climatic context (Catania city, Csa climate) is clearly specified.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias specific to one city and one summer.

Provenance

Source

University of Bath (PhD thesis by Elisabetta Maria Patanè)

Collection Method

Longitudinal monitoring and survey campaign in residential settings.

Time Range

07/06/2019 to 19/09/2019

Geography

Catania, Italy (Csa climate zone)