[Bldg-sim] WEATHER: Free tool for creating AMY-files for Europe

[Lukas Lundström]

Jeremiah

I'm sorry, but it's a European only project because the solar radiation
data that is used is provided by the Swedish national weather institute.

Best regards,

Lukas Lundström

https://sites.google.com/site/weatherconverter


2012/12/5 Jeremiah Crossett <jcrossett at phasechange.com>

> Lucas,
> Are you planing to expand to the USA or other global locations in the
> future or will this project forever be for the EU only?
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> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Lukas Lundström <lukas.rokka at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> The Real-Time Weather Converter tool for creating Actual Meteorological
>> Year (AMY) files for North Europe have been updated.
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>> News for version 2.1:
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>>    - Solar radiation data can now be retrieved from an arbitrary
>>    coordination point covered by the STRÅNG modeling system. These data can
>>    for example be used for creating customized weather files by combing them
>>    with site-specific measurements of temperature and humidity and wind and
>>    atmospheric pressure data from the nearest official weather station.
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>> News for version 2.0:
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>>    - All data from ISD is available, also data marked as "Additional".
>>    If you tried the tool before but didn't get any data for your station, you
>>    should now be able to get usable data for most locations.
>>    - A new server that maps data from the SMHI server. Now retrieval
>>    time is just a few seconds for one year of solar radiation data. AMY-files
>>    can now be created in under a minute.
>>    - Missing data points are visualized graphically.
>>
>> The tool was made as part of my MSc degree project at Mälardalens
>> University, Sweden. It uses observed actual weather data from the
>> Integrated Surface Database (ISD),
>> http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/isd, and modeled solar radiation
>> data from STRÅNG, http://strang.smhi.se.
>>
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>> Roughly, the tool covers most of Europe excluding south Europe. Long-term
>> coverage is from 1 of January 1999 to up to date for the northernmost area,
>> the southern area is covered from 1 of June 2006 (see website for map).
>>
>> The quality of the solar radiation data from STRÅNG varies in the
>> geographical dimension. Roughly the model gives good result for Sweden and
>> Central Europe, but underestimates for ocean coast near areas like UK,
>> Norway etc. The model does underestimate as well for the Baltics, northern
>> Finland and some high altitude sites. There's a validation figure (for
>> Google Earth) at the tools homepage in the help section.
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Lukas Lundström
>>
>> https://sites.google.com/site/weatherconverter
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