[Bldg-sim] Creating a weather file

[Raines, Krista]

Dear Khristiam,

We use Meteonorm software when we need a weather file for a city that is not in the Energy Plus database. It uses a large weather station database and where there aren't weather stations, the software interpolates data between different stations. The software isn't free though, it's about 500 euros.
http://meteonorm.com/

Another source I've used that is free or cheap depending on the type of weather data you require is the NOAA site. It looks like their 2 nearest weather stations are called Ciudad Bolivar (Lat: 8.15 deg., Long: -63.550 deg.) and General Manuel Carl (lat: 8.283 deg, long: -62.75 deg.) Here is their site: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/#t=firstTabLink. You can search for the stations on the map and get hourly data text files. Usually I take these and convert them to .wea or .epa files through Weather Tool (this is an Autodesk product). You might also be able to use the Energy Plus Weather File Convertor which is free, but I haven't used it to convert text files to weather files before.

Krista Raines, LEED AP BD+C

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC
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New York, NY 10036
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From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Khristiam Alvarez
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 8:41 AM
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Subject: [Bldg-sim] Creating a weather file

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!

--
Khristiam Alvarez
Ingeniero Mecánico

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