RE: [EnergyPlus_Support] weather files

["Crawley, Drury" <Drury.Crawley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Most of the weather files are composite files from multiple years.  Each
month has been selected to be representative of that month for the
period of record.  Representative of the normal patterns for that month
not the average.  The selection of months is usually based on a
weighting of temperature, humidity, wind, and solar.  There are some
variations among the weighting (and I can't quickly find what was done
for the Australia RMY).  Most are similar to the TMY2 done in the US in
the 1990s:  http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/pubs/tmy2/
 
 

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From: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Danny Bishop
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 10:10 PM
To: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [EnergyPlus_Support] weather files



Hi All
Can anyone tell me what the weather files for e+ represent? Ie is it one
year, or an average of many years?
I have this line from the Melbourne weather file I have : 
COMMENTS 1,Australia Climatic Data Base Reference Meteorological Year
Weather Data Set December 2006 Period of record 1967-2004;

Does this mean it is the average from 1967-2004?

Cheers
Bisho

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