[EnergyPlus_Support] Climate Data for Russia, Western Asia and Eastern Europe [1 Attachment]

Climate.OneBuilding.org is pleased to announce the availability of new climate data (TMYx) for more than 2350 locations for theÂ following countries:

Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Russia (both Europe and Asia)

Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Asia: Armenia,Â Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan,Â Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Europe: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia andÂ Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Moldova, Montenegro, North MacedoniaÂ (former YRO Macedonia), Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.

TMYx are derived from the ISD (US NOAA's Integrated Surface Database) with hourly data through 2017 using the TMY2/ISO ISO 15927-4:2005 methodologies. We gratefully acknowledge Sergey Zhukovskiyâ??s help on Russian names.Â Of course, anyÂ naming mistakes in any of the countries are ours. More details on the numbers of locations by country are at the end of this message.

Adding these data to the earlier (April/October/November 2018) sets for the Americas, Africa, Middle East, So Asia, and SW Pacific, Climate.OneBuilding.org now provides climate TMYx data at no cost for more than 6,800 locations and another 3,200 from other data sources worldwide. All data have been through extensive quality checking to identify and correct data errors and out of normal range values where appropriate.

Each climate location .zip on Climate.OneBuilding.org contains: EPW (EnergyPlus weather format), CLM (ESP-r weather format), and WEA (Daysim weather format) along with DDY (ASHRAE design conditions in EnergyPlus format), RAIN (hourly precipitation in mm, where available), and STAT (expanded EnergyPlus weather statistics).

For more information or to download any of the weather data (no cost), go to http://clmate.onebuilding.org

Climate files by country in this update:

Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â TMYx WMO Region 6 (Europe) 559 locations, 834 climate files: 559 from full dataset, 275 with 2003-2017 years data. By Country (totals): Albania (22), Belarus (71), Bosnia and Herzegovina (30), Bulgaria (75), Croatia (75), Moldova (17), Montenegro (20), North Macedonia (formerly YRO Macedonia) (25), Romania (220), Serbia (66), Slovenia (34), Ukraine (179)

Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â TMYx WMO Region 2 (Asia) 403 locations, 637 climate files: 403 from full dataset, 234 with 2003-2017 years data.Â By Country (totals): Armenia (17), Azerbaijan (41), Georgia (58), Kazakhstan (204), Kyrgyzstan (28), Mongolia (122), Tajikistan (48), Turkmenistan (61), Uzbekistan (58)

Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â TMYx "Russia" WMO Regions 2 (Asia) and 6 (Europe) 1395 locations, 2212 climate files: 1395 from full dataset, 817 with 2003-2017 years data.