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Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] When Weather Data isn't Available on the EnergyPlus web site
It will be very useful .
I would like data for Kuwait, is it available on any site ohter than this?
Please also tell me how to use meteonorm to try and create it myself.
Thanks a bunch.
Shital Soni
Student at Cardiff University
MSc Environmental Design of Buildings
mby <bojic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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