[EnergyPlus_Support] New Weather Data Available for 242 locations in Brazil, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Italy, Kenya, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka

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New weather data for 242 locations in Brazil, China, Ethiopia, Ghana,
Italy, Kenya, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are now available in E/E
(EnergyPlus/ESP-r) weather format:

Chinese Typical Year Weather (CTYW)
Developed for use in simulating building heating and air conditioning loads
and energy use, and for calculating renewable energy utilization, this set
of 57 weather files is based on a 1982-1997 period of record with data
obtained from the U. S. National Climatic Data Center. These data were
developed by Joe Huang of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.  The
original data set was created by Prof. ZHANG Qingyuan of Tsukuba University
Japan, in collaboration with Joe Huang of Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory. Development of the original typical year weather files is
documented in Zhang Qingyuan and Joe Huang. 2004. Chinese Typical Year
Weather Data for Architectural Use (in Chinese). ISBN 7-111-14810-X.
Beijing: China Machine Press.


Italian Climatic data collection "Gianni De Giorgio" (IGDG)
Developed for use in simulating renewable energy technologies, this set of
66 weather files is based on a 1951-1970 period of record. The data were
created by Professor Livio Mazzarella, Politecnico di Milano, and is named
in honor of Gianni de Giorgio.


Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA)
The Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA) project, funded by
the United Nations Environment Program, is developing high quality
information on solar and wind energy resources in 14 developing countries.
Previously typical year hourly data were available for 37 locations in
Belize, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.  An
additional 119 locations in Brazil, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya,
Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka have recently been released. (More
information on SWERA is available on their web site: http://swera.unep.net/
).

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These new data bring the total number of weather files available on the
EnergyPlus web site to more than 900 with 295 in the US, 55 in Canada, and
560 in 100 other countries.  All the new data are available for download
from the EnergyPlus web site:

http://www.energyplus.gov/cfm/weatherdata.html

If you know of other typical weather data that could be shared with
EnergyPlus and ESP-r users (or the 15 other simulation programs that can
read E/E weather files), please contact us directly.  We know of two other
data sets in preparation--for India and Portugal--which we will post to the
web site as they become available.

EnergyPlus team






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