Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Meteonorm weather file from Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

["Linda Lawrie linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support]" <EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe they are no longer supporting the real time
weather data request but don't seem to have removed it from the
website.

At 03:05 AM 10/26/2015, sergi vall sergivall@xxxxxxxxx
[EnergyPlus_Support] wrote:


> Well the idea was to get the
> weather data from
> :
> http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/weatherdata_request_search.cfm?sortKey=country&opt=1
> .
> But I don't know why I couldn't get from here so I thought that if not
> from here maybe from meteonorm...
> Anyone had tried to get data from the same place and could?
>
>
>
> On Saturday, October 24, 2015
> 5:03 PM, "Linda Lawrie linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [EnergyPlus_Support]" <EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>
>   
> 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.
>
> $500 is the amount we would need to upgrade Meteonorm.   
>
> Most weatherfiles for cost do not cost that.
>
> Weather files of multiple years are a specialty for EnergyPlus -- most
> people are using a typical meterological year.
> To read about appropriate uses of weather for simulation see:
> http://climate.onebuilding.org/papers/1998_06_Crawley_Which_Weather_Data_Should_You_Use_for_Energy_Simulations_of_Commercial_Buildings.pdf
>  
>
>
>
> At 03:04 AM 10/23/2015, sergivall@xxxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support]
> wrote:
>
>
> > Well, I don't have 500$ for a
> > climatic weather file... so I will use the uploaded file.
> >
> > What I tried to say is that the uploaded weather file "just"
> > has 1 year of meteorological data and would be better with more data from
> > other years.
> >
> > Thank you anyway :)

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Posted by: Linda Lawrie <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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