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Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] When Weather Data isn't Available on the EnergyPlus web site
It is intersting initiative. Can you make data for
Kragujevac, Yugoslavia.
Thanks in advance
Best regards
Prof. Milorad Bojic
University of Kragujevac
Serbia and Montenegro
--- Drury.Crawley@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Over the last few years, a number of users have
> needed
> weather data to use with EnergyPlus where we don't
> have
> measured data (on the EnergyPlus web site). When
> possible,
> we have created weather data using the Meteonorm
> software.
> Meteonorm extrapolates hourly data from statistical
> data
> for a location. Where statistical data aren't
> available,
> Meteonorm interpolates from other nearby sites.
> Generally
> a statistical approach is a last resort--weather
> files
> generated from statistics will not demonstrate the
> normal
> hour-to-hour and day-to-day variability seen in
> measured data.
>
> Having stated all those warnings, we have just
> posted the weather
> files that we have generated from Meteonorm on the
> EnergyPlus
> Support YahooGroups web page
>
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EnergyPlus_Support/files/Meteonorm_Weather_Files/
> ).
>
>
> Each .ZIP includes a .STAT (EnergyPlus weather data
> statistics),
> .EPW (EnergyPlus weather file), and .INFO
> (Information about
> the source data and limitations from Meteonorm).
>
> IN ALL CASES, YOU SHOULD REVIEW THE .STAT FILE FOR
> THE LOCATION
> BEFORE USING ANY OF THESE FILES TO ENSURE THAT IT
> REPRESENTS
> THE CLIMATE OF THE LOCATION AS YOU UNDERSTAND IT. IN
> MANY CASES,
> A NEARBY LOCATION WITH MEASURED DATA WILL BE MORE
> APPROPRIATE THAN
> ONE DERIVED FROM STATISTICS. USE THESE FILES AT YOUR
> OWN RISK.
>
> The following locations are now available:
>
> BRA_Rio.de.Janeiro_MN5
> ETH_Addis.Ababa_MN5
> HKG_Hong.Kong_MN5
> HRV_Zagreb-Pleso_MN5
> IRQ_Baghdad_MN5
> IRQ_Basra_MN5
> IRQ_Mosul_MN5
> MEX_Monterrey.Ciudad_MN5
> MEX_Monterrey.International.Airport_MN5
> MLI_Bamako-Senou_MN5
> NPL_Kathmandu_MN5
> PAK_Hyderabad_MN5
> PRT_Lisbon-Gago.Coutinh_MN5
> PRT_Lisbon-Portela_MN5
> SLE_Freetown_MN5
> USA_NM_Santa.Fe_MN5
> YUG_Novi.Sad_MN5
>
> Please note... Meteotest significantly updated the
> wind and
> other calculations [hourly wind direction in TMY2
> (which we
> use) was constant... the update makes them
> variable].
> If you received a file from the team before early
> December 2004,
> we strongly recommend that you download the new
> file.
>
> We are working on getting data for another 200
> locations
> over the next few months--targets include Italy (60+
> files),
> Brazil, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Nepal, Bangladesh,
> and China.
> All except Italy are from the UNEP SWERA project (so
> we're
> waiting on the data to become available on the SWERA
> web site--
> swera.unep.net/swera/).
>
> As always, if you know of sources of weather data
> that
> we might be able to share with the EnergyPlus
> community,
> please contact us.
>
> EnergyPlus Development Team
>
>
>
>
>
>
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