[Bldg-sim] Find epw weather files

Patrick Bivona patrick.bivona at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 19:13:32 PDT 2012


Hi Jamie,

Thanks for the tool. IES VE does something similar. But instead of giving
the lat/lng difference with the closest matching location with an epw file,
it tells the distance between the 2 locations, which I found useful.

Regards,
Patrick


> *From:* bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:
> bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of *Jamie Bull
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 03, 2012 8:10 AM
> *To:* bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* [Bldg-sim] Find epw weather files
> *****Sent:* Wednesday, October 03, 2012 8:10 AM
> *To:* bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* [Bldg-sim] Find epw weather files
>
> Hi all,
>
> First post here so I'd to share a tool I've just put together to find
> nearest .epw file to a given location. The tool is an Excel workbook which
> looks up the latitude and longitude of an entered location and gives a link
> to the zip archive for closest location with an .epw file available on the
> EnergyPlus website. There's more info and a download link<http://oco-carbon.com/2012/10/03/weather-file-finder/>
>  here.
>
> Any comments or suggestions for improvement would be gratefully received.
> I'm thinking of adding something which tells you the difference in
> latitude, longitude and elevation between the two locations so you have a
> better idea of whether they are similar. If anyone has other sources of
> .epw files that could be added to the tool that would be great too.
>
> I hope this comes in handy for someone.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jamie

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