[Bldg-sim] [Equest-users] Binned weather data for US (not the equest weather file)

[Joe Huang]

This is the first I've heard of NREL having (weather data ?) "around the world in csv file 
format".   Outside of a few selected countries or regions (SWERA, China, India), I was not 
aware that NREL was working on weather files for non-US locations.  Furthermore, their 
international focus has been mainly on estimating solar radiation, not on developing 
weather files per se.  If you know of such data at NREL, please share more information on 
what they are or where the files are available.

I do know that the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has put a lot of weather data from 
around the world online as the ISH (Integrated Surface Hourly) data base   
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/isd/index.php

In fact, the new NSRDB (National Solar Radiation Data Base) 1991-2010 that I mentioned 
earlier  is now accessible both at a NREL site
http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/1991-2010/SolarAnywhere/
as well as via ftp at a NCDC web site:

Joe

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On 1/10/2013 3:49 PM, Brandon Damas wrote:
> NREL has most locations around the world in csv file format. I have been using these 
> files for years. Also, this is the data that a lot of other energy modeling programs use 
> for weather simulation data. Hopefully this is what is needed. Here is the link to 
> download the files.
>
> http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/1991-2005/tmy3/by_state_and_city.html#Top
>
> Sincerely,
>
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> *From:* Mike Oliver <moliver at aroraengineers.com>
> *Sent:* Thu Jan 10 17:37:20 CST 2013
> *To:* R B <slv3sat at gmail.com>, "bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org" 
> <bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org>, eQUEST Users List <equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] Binned weather data for US (not the equest weather file)
>
> In the old days I had luck with using one of the Regional Climate Centers.  I used the 
> Northeast (NRCC) based at Cornell.  For a fee they would develop bin data for any of the 
> cities they had data for, either single years or combined groups of years i.e. 1993 to 
> 2003.
>
> http://www.nrcc.cornell.edu/page_services.html
>
> Yes, they are agriculturally oriented but they have a lot of data.  Data is data.
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> *Sent:* Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:49 PM
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> *Subject:* [Equest-users] Binned weather data for US (not the equest weather file)
>
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to get binned weather data for different locations - preferably free. A 
> quick google search did not come up with anything concrete.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Rohini
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