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[EnergyPlus_Support] IWEC -- International Weather Data



As you know, we (EnergyPlus Development Team) obtained the ASHRAE IWEC 
data, obtained permission to post it on the web site, and then processed it 
and subsequently posted it.

Recently, it was discovered (by an EnergyPlus User), that this data has 
some "significant" probelms.  In short, the temperatures and probably some 
other data (but not solar data) is shifted by the number of hours that the 
location differs from GMT.  After verifying this, we have reported it to 
ASHRAE and corrected data will be forthcoming.  Until then, you should just 
be aware of the impacts.

And, we have added a new statistic to the WeatherConverter programs 
"statistics" report -- where we will hopefully never need it to identify a 
similar problem in future weather data.  The statistics for the hourly 
average in a day shows, (Havana Cuba -- TZ GMT -5):

  	           	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	
  	 0:01- 
1:00	 20.8	 22.0	 22.0	 24.4	 25.3	 26.1	 26.1	 26.7	 25.7	 25.0	 23.6	 22.1	
  	 1:01- 
2:00	 20.1	 21.6	 21.5	 23.8	 24.6	 25.6	 25.8	 26.2	 25.4	 24.7	 23.0	 21.4	
  	 2:01- 
3:00	 19.5	 21.0	 20.9	 23.5	 24.3	 25.4	 25.4	 25.7	 25.0	 24.3	 22.5	 21.0	
  	 3:01- 
4:00	 19.1	 20.7	 20.4	 22.7	 23.9	 25.0	 25.5	 25.5	 24.7	 24.0	 22.3	 20.8	
  	 4:01- 
5:00	 18.7	 20.2	 20.1	 22.4	 23.2	 24.7	 25.0	 25.2	 24.4	 23.7	 21.8	 20.5	
  	 5:01- 
6:00	 18.5	 19.9	 19.8	 22.0	 22.7	 24.5	 24.8	 24.8	 24.0	 23.3	 21.5	 20.3	
  	 6:01- 
7:00	 18.1	 19.7	 19.6	 21.7	 22.3	 24.2	 24.6	 24.4	 23.8	 23.0	 21.2	 20.1	
  	 7:01- 
8:00	 17.9	 19.5	 19.3	 21.3	 22.1	 24.0	 24.4	 24.0	 23.6	 22.7	 21.0	 19.9	
  	 8:01- 
9:00	 17.4	 19.2	 19.1	 21.0	 21.8	 23.9	 24.2	 23.8	 23.3	 22.5	 20.6	 19.7	
  	 9:01-10:00	 17.1	 19.1	 19.1	 20.7	 21.7	 23.9	 24.1	 23.7	 23.2	 22.2 
20.4	 19.5	
  	10:01-11:00	 17.1	 19.2	 19.0	 20.7	 21.6	 23.8	 24.2	 23.5	 23.1	 22.0 
20.1	 19.5	
  	11:01-12:00	 16.9	 19.1	 19.1	 21.2	 22.8	 24.6	 24.9	 23.9	 23.3	 22.3 
20.5	 19.6	
  	12:01-13:00	 17.5	 19.4	 20.6	 23.8	 25.0	 25.9	 26.9	 26.2	 25.4	 23.7 
22.1	 20.2	
  	13:01-14:00	 19.9	 21.7	 22.9	 25.5	 26.9	 27.6	 28.7	 28.3	 27.4	 25.8 
24.4	 22.3	
  	14:01-15:00	 22.2	 23.8	 24.3	 26.9	 28.2	 28.8	 29.7	 29.7	 28.9	 27.5 
26.2	 24.2	
  	15:01-16:00	 23.5	 25.3	 25.3	 27.9	 29.2	 29.6	 30.5	 30.8	 29.9	 28.3 
27.3	 25.6	
  	16:01-17:00	 24.5	 26.1	 26.1	 28.6	 30.0	 30.4	 30.9	 31.1	 30.5	 28.6 
28.0	 26.3	
  	17:01-18:00	 24.8	 26.7	 26.4	 29.0	 30.5	 30.7	 31.0	 31.0	 30.7	 28.9 
28.3	 26.7	
  	18:01-19:00	 25.2	 26.9	 26.5	 29.2	 30.5	 30.5	 30.8	 31.1	 30.1	 29.1 
28.3	 27.0	
  	19:01-20:00	 25.1	 26.6	 26.1	 29.2	 30.1	 30.1	 30.3	 30.4	 29.6	 28.8 
27.7	 26.7	
  	20:01-21:00	 24.4	 26.0	 25.6	 28.7	 28.9	 29.3	 29.2	 29.6	 28.6	 28.1 
27.3	 26.1	
  	21:01-22:00	 23.5	 25.1	 25.1	 27.8	 28.5	 28.5	 28.3	 28.9	 27.8	 27.5 
26.3	 25.2	
  	22:01-23:00	 22.4	 24.0	 24.0	 26.6	 27.6	 27.7	 27.4	 28.5	 26.9	 26.6 
25.1	 23.9	
  	23:01-24:00	 21.3	 22.8	 22.9	 25.4	 26.4	 26.9	 26.7	 27.5	 26.1	 25.7 
24.2	 22.8	
  	 Max 
Hour  	  19 	  19 	  19 	  20 	  19 	  18 	  18 	  19 	  18 	  19 	  18 	  19 	
  	 Min 
Hour  	  12 	  12 	  11 	  11 	  11 	  11 	  10 	  11 	  11 	  11 	  11 	  11 	

Sorry for any wrapping that occurs.  The original data has tabs for easy 
spreadsheet insertion.

Impacts (until correct weather data occurs):  the high temperatures may 
occur in the middle of the night whereas the lows may be in the middle of 
the day.  Just an FYI and heads up.  We'll also let you know as things get 
corrected.

Linda


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