[Bldg-sim] Creating a weather file

Khristiam Alvarez kalvarez at corpoelec.gob.ve
Wed Sep 12 11:27:19 PDT 2012


Thank you guys.
I have read with much care and interest all the information you've 
kindly sent and am sure my modelling efforts will be better from now on.

Warmest Regards

-- 
Khristiam Alvarez
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El 12/9/2012 12:12 p.m., Joe Huang escribió:
> I have attempted to create a simulation-usable weather file from the 
> raw data from WUnderground, using the procedure that I have developed 
> over the past 15 years working with other sources of raw data, 
> especially NCDC's Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) data base.
>
> The main problems I've encountered, besides learning how to download 
> conveniently the raw data for multiple year, is the absence of sky 
> cover information that I need to extrapolate the solar radiation using 
> several empirical models.  I have not pursued this track, i.e., using 
> WUnderground raw data, very much because I'm all set up to process ISH 
> data, which are records from 8,000 official meteorological stations 
> around the world, which have met my needs in almost all cases.  For 
> example, for locations around Caracas, the ISH also contains good data 
> for Valencia, as well as Maracay-Ba-Sucr and Pto-Cabello.
>
> Joe
>
> Joe Huang
> White Box Technologies, Inc.
> 346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 108D
> Moraga CA 94556
> yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com
> www.whiteboxtechnologies.com
> (o) (925)388-0265
> (c) (510)928-2683
> "building energy simulations at your fingertips"
>
>
> On 9/12/2012 5:41 AM, Khristiam Alvarez wrote:
>> Hi there
>>
>> Have anyone experience in creating a new weather file from 
>> wunderground data?
>>
>> This is my case: I use the Caracas file download from the EnergyPlus 
>> site converted to eQuest format but I live in other hotter city, 
>> Puerto Ordaz that has a wunderground station working since last april.
>>
>> Thank you very much!
>>
>
>

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