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White Box Technologies (WBT)
has now made available 2016 weather files
down through Oct 27 for 8,140 locations around the world
(2110 US, 275
Canadian, 5755 international). After the end of year,
these 2016 weather files will be updated at no
additonal cost. Added to the
weather files previously generated
going back to 2001, the WBT Weather web site now
contains 16-year time series
of hourly weather for 6,500 locations, and shorter time
series for another
3,500 locations, or over 130,000 weather files in all.
WBT can also create "typical year" weather files for
any of these locations, although one should check first
whether there's an existing TMY3/CN2014 for a US or
Canadian location, or a IWEC2 file for an international
location. Please go here
for a list of all
2016 files for US and
Canada or here
for a list of all 2016 files for international
locations. To search for a
weather file on the WBT Weather web site, please go here and
use either the "Search by List" or the "Search by Google
Maps" options. In addition to the regular
update of current year weather files,
the following weather products have been introduced over
the past 14
months: 1. MX2015 is a set of "typical
year" weather files for 119 Mexican locations based on
16 years
of historical weather from 2001-2015, with
satellite-derived solar radiation. 2. CN2014 was introduced in Oct 2015 and
contains "typical year" weather files for 224 Canadian
locations.
They are based on 15 years of historical weather from
2000-2014, and thus 25
years more recent than the CWEC2, which used data ending
in 1989. These will also be upgraded with
satellite-derived solar radiation in 2017. 3. ISHRAE2 is a
set of "typical year" weather
files for 62 Indian locations. These weather files were
developed by WBT for
ISHRAE in 2014 utilizing weather data from various
sources in India and the US.
The ISHRAE2 files are free in accordance to an agreement
with the Indian
government. 4. Custom TYP "typical year"
weather files for 117 locations not covered in other
weather data sets. These were
done on demand for the past 5 years and generally
cover underserved
regions of the world,
such as Latin America and Subsaharan Africa, and a few
odd places in the US. For
a list of these TYP files, please go here
. The following features and
products have been previously announced but repeated
here for new viewers: 5. Of special interest to eQUEST users,
a feature was added in 2014 allowing users to create
composite weather file combining
data from two consecutive years but running from Jan. 1
of one year to Dec.31
of the preceding year. This is very handy when doing
simulations for a project period
that extends over two calendar years (see this
memo for details). 6. Of special interest to EnergyPlus
users,
all WBT weather files are now provided with Design Day
files (*.DDY), either from
the 2013 ASHRAE
Handbook of Fundamentals (HOF),
or calculated from the historical record of that weather
station. This second
method is increasingly important, as the number of WBT
weather stations is now
40% larger than the HOF, and also
shows
how design conditions can change over time. 7. ASHRAE IWEC2 (International
Weather for Energy Calculations) is a
large set of “typical year”
weather files for 3,012 international locations outside
of the USA and Canada. IWEC2 weather
files were developed in a
4-year project utilizing actual reports from thousands
of weather stations around
the world going back 25 years. IWEC2 weather
files can be purchased
either for individual locations, country
and region sets, or even the entire collection.
For a complete list of
all IWEC2
stations, see here. For more information,
please go here.
IWEC2 files
will soon also available from IES-VE and CYPE in
early 2017.
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