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Make comparisons across climates or between different months and discuss the absolute conditions of one and the relative differences between two or more.
A critical first step in the understanding of what the appropriate passive and active strategies are possible.
Any climate analysis begins with the evaluation of the psychrometric chart and the basics of average monthly temperature and relative humidity. This should quickly expand beyond those conditions to a point where the design student can understand the depth of information that is available and necessary to use in the analysis of building designs. The detailed analysis can begin with the creation of heating and cooling season psychrometric charts to look in detail at threshold and boundary conditions for heating and cooling.
I prefer to use the TMY (Typical Meteorological Year) data from the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in the detailed analysis. The methods of analysis that are performed in Sun, Wind & Light are useful, and helpful as a basis for the parsing of this data
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