[Equest-users] WEATHER DATA - 2014 weather data now available for 8, 600 locations around the world

[Joe Huang]

hite Box Technologies makes available year 2014 weather files for over 8,600 locations 
around the world (2,200 US, 290 Canadian, 6,110 international). Added to the weather files 
previously generated going back to 2001, the WBT Weather web site now contains 14-year 
time series of hourly weather for 6,500 locations, and shorter time series for another 
3,500 locations. WBT can also create "typical year" weather files for any of these 
locations, although one should check first whether there's already a TMY3 for a US 
location, or a IWEC2 file for an international location.

For a complete list of all 2014 files, please see 
http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/ISH2014_USACan_locations.txt or 
http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/ISH2014_Intern_locations.txt . To search for a weather 
file on the WBT Weather web site, please go to: http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com 
and use either "Search by Google Earth" or "Search by List".

There have also been two new features added to the WBT Web site over the past year:

1) Of special interest to eQUEST users, a feature has been added allowing users to create 
a composite weather file with data from two different years, e.g., Jan. 1 - Apr. 30 of 
2013, followed by May 1 - Dec. 31 of 2012. This is handy when calibrating simulations to 
monitored data, which rarely begin and end in the same calendar year. (see 
http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/creating_a_composite_year_wthrfile.pdf for details).

2) Of interest to EnergyPlus users, all WBT weather files now come with Design Day files 
(*.DDY), either taken from the 2013 ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals, or calculated from 
the historical record of that weather station. This second method has become increasingly 
important, as the number of WBT weather stations is now 40% larger than that in the ASHRAE 
HOF. To avoid confusion, these calculated DDY files are given the extension *.DDY2.

A final note: if you don't find your location of interest on the WBT web site, that 
doesn't mean there's no data , just that the data need further processing or extracted 
from other sources. This is particularly true for North America, where there are at least 
ten times as many unofficial weather stations as there are official stations. So, if you 
can't find the weather data you want, please send us an e-mail.

Joe
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Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A
Moraga CA 94556
yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com
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