I'll have my thesis ready in September, it will include method descriptions and validation. I'll update the software documentation then as well. For the solar data used you find validation here http://strang.smhi.se/validation/validation.html. The STRÃ?NG solar data don't have that good temporal and geographic resolution as e.g. HelioClim data but it is free and most likely good enough for building simulation. From test I've done on sites in Scandinavia the solar data is quite much better than that from regular energyPlus TMY weather files.
For interpolation opensource MathNet libraries are used, for filling longer data gaps a similar method as EERE uses is used, described at http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/pdfs/weatherdata_guide_34303.pdf.
Geographic area that is covered is a rotated latitude-longitude networks, but expressed as normal lat/lon the coordinate are:
"Lower left" lat 48.498 lon -10.592
"upper right" lat 63.377 lon 51.563
Before Juni 2006 the area is smaller and geographic resolution poorer.
/Lukas
--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Simeon Oxizidis <simeonagas@...> wrote:
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> Thank you very much Lucas for sharing your software tool with us. It seems great and will be definitely of much help to our community.
>
> But is it possible to share supporting documentation (papers or even your thesis) as well? It will be very interesting and useful to know the methodology you have followed and probably have some validation data.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Simos
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>
>
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> Î`Ï?ο: rokkas80 <lukas.rokka@...>
> Î Ï Î¿Ï?: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ΣÏ?άλθηκε: 2:12 μ.μ. Î"εÏ?Ï?ÎÏ Î±, 28 Î?αΠοÏ? 2012
> Î?εμα: [EnergyPlus_Support] Tool for creating AMY weather files for northern Europe
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> Hi,
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> As part of my degree project I've made a tool for retrieving and converting actual weather data to be used in EnergyPlus or IDA ICE.
> You get access to weather data for about 2000 weather stations in northern Europe, from 1999 up till last month.
>
> The tool retrieves weather observation data from Integrated Surface Database (ISD), http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/isd, and modeled solar radiation data with an 11x11 km resolution over northern Europe from STRÃ?NG, http://strang.smhi.se. Merges and interpolate data, and fills in missing data gaps if necessary.
>
> Here's a dropbox link to the installation software:
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dh2y69173fhzylu/77eM5ZDr3F
>
> Best regards,
> Lukas Lundström
> (lukas.rokka@...)
>
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Best Regards,
Paull Dybskiy
M.A.Sc. Candidate, Department of Architectural Science
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science, Ryerson University
E-mail: pdybskiy@xxxxxxxxxx;
telephone: 647-984-4940
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