[Bldg-sim] Reliable wind data resources for Qingdao, China

Parntip H. parntip.h at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 05:42:39 PST 2009


Thank you so much for the all the inputs. I think that the reason for the
Qingdao discrepancies could be that it varies with location of monitoring
station. I'll check the closest location to our site.

Regards,
Parntip H.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Joe Huang <joe at drawbdl.com> wrote:

> Several things to keep in mind about the CTYW weather files:
> 1. they are based on the International Surface Weather Observations for
> 1982 - 1997
> 2. mostly 3-hour data
> 3. data from airport (this is no different from  98% of the weather data
> available for use, though).
> Qingdao is a seaport, so the prevailing wind directions may differ
> depending on location to location.  I have created a newer set of typical
> year weather data for China that will become part of ASHRAE's IWEC2 weather
> files for 2,500 international locations. I will send you that draft weather
> file for Qingdao via e-mail.
>
> Joe Huang
> White Box Technologies
>
> (original developer with Dr. ZHANG Qingyuan of Tsukuba University in Japan
> of the CTYW weather files)
>
>
> Parntip H. wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have downloaded an epw weather file and converted to a wea file using
>> Weather Tool for climate analysis. The weather data source for this Qingdao
>> weather file is a Chinese Typical Year Weather (CTYW) . However, when I
>> checked with some other sources, it seems that the prevailing wind
>> directions in winter were very different so I was wondering if there’re any
>> reliable sources that I can use to cross-check that the wind directions are
>> accurate because we would like to target strategies to block the wind in
>> winter time.
>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Parntip H.
>>
>>
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>>
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