[Bldg-sim] FYI great source for international weather data

[Joe Huang]

Actual data means actual statistical data, i.e., monthly climate norms, 
not actual hourly data.  When you get a hourly weather file from 
MeteoNorm, all the values are derived.

Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
346 Rheem Blvd. Suite 108D
Moraga CA 94556
(o) +925 388 0265
(c) +510 928 2683
yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com
www.whiteboxtechnologies.com



Julia Beabout wrote:
> It's been pointed out that my reply below was inserted into the wrong 
> email chain.  This is the chain I meant to put it in. Hopefully, it 
> will make more sense now.
> Apologies, I'm going back to get another cup of coffee now.
>
> Good point.  Thanks for pointing that out.  My understanding is that 
> they use actual weather data from weather stations where they exist.  
> So, if you happen to need weather data for one of those sites, then 
> you are getting actual weather data.   If you request an "in between" 
> site, then they interpolate via triangulation to get that weather 
> data.  However, they appear to be able to take into account specific 
> details of your site such as elevation, landscape, etc if you have 
> that info. 
>
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> *From:* Joe Huang <YJHuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com>
> *To:* Julia Beabout <juliabeabout at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* BLDG-SIM <bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org>
> *Sent:* Thu, January 28, 2010 2:53:55 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Bldg-sim] FYI great source for international weather data
>
> While Meteonorm is a great product, users should be aware that it's 
> synthetic data generated by a computer program that extrapolates 
> hourly data from statistical data for a location, or if even the 
> statistical data are unavailable, interpolates from nearby locations
>
> I'd also want to mention that ASHRAE will likely be releasing sometime 
> this year a large data set of IWEC2 weather files for over 3,000 
> international locations.
>
> Joe Huang
> White Box Technologies, Inc.
> 346 Rheem Blvd. Suite 108D
> Moraga CA 94556
> (o) +925 388 0265
> (c) +510 928 2683
> yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com <mailto:yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com>
> www.whiteboxtechnologies.com <http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com>
>
>
>
> Julia Beabout wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > FYI the link below is great source for international weather data.  
> The service and software was new to me - so, I thought I'd pass it 
> along in case others were unfamiliar with the company as well.
> > They sell weather creation software that can be used to create 
> weather data for any location in the world - yes, ANY location. The 
> weather data file can be created in various formats such as TMY, TM2 
> and others for direct use in the energy or other modeling software you 
> are using.  The software is around $600.  Or, they can create a single 
> weather file for a particular requested location and email it to you 
> for around $80.  I used this latter service.  I requested it in the 
> evening and had it the next morning!
> >
> > http://www.meteonorm.com/pages/en/meteonorm.php
> >
> > Happy modeling.
> > Julia
> >
> >
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