[Bldg-sim] Wind driven rain data

Luis Miguel Blanes Restoy lmblanes at gmail.com
Fri Jul 6 06:34:07 PDT 2018


Joe
Try this link
https://es.scribd.com/document/346851908/MET-Driving-Rain-Index-IRELAND#close_user_settings_menu
Regards
Luis

On Thu 5 Jul 2018, 04:28 Joe Huang, <yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com>
wrote:

> Luis,
>
> Thanks for the tip.  I went to the link, which by the way is for the Irish
> Meteorological Service,  and read that it said, "The amount of rain
> received by a wall correlates fairly well with the product of rainfall and
> the component of the wind speed normal to the wall. This led Lacy and
> Shellard to propose the product of the mean annual rainfall and the mean
> annual wind speed as a driving rain index which is proportional to the
> total rainfall driven in one year on to a vertical surface always facing
> the wind",  which is functionally quite close to what I was envisioning,
> i.e., WDR = LP * f(wspd, wdir),  where LP is Liquid Precipitation or
> Rainfall. However, when I clicked on the link to the actual paper cited,
> the Meteireann web site responded that  "404: Page not found".  Therefore,
> I still don't know the function that converts LP or rainfall to WDR.
>
> Joe
>
> Joe Huang
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> On 7/4/2018 2:30 PM, Luis Miguel Blanes Restoy wrote:
>
> Hi Roel and Joe
>
> Did you look at available data from Met Eireann? There is a paper
> regarding WDR index calculation method that may be of your interest. See
> below link.
>
> https://www.met.ie/climate/what-we-measure/rainfall#
>
> Regards
> Luis
>
>
> On Wed 4 Jul 2018, 22:12 Joe Huang via Bldg-sim, <
> bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:
>
>> What is your definition for Wind-driven Rain?  Practically all weather
>> station reports, including official stations available in NOAA's ISD as
>> well as unofficial "Personal Weather Stations" hosted on
>> WeatherUnderground, contain information on liquid precipitation (LP), wind
>> speed, and wind direction.  Can the WDR be calculated from these standard
>> parameters, maybe as the LP * f(wspd, wdir) ?
>>
>> Joe
>> On 7/4/2018 3:52 AM, Roel Tersteeg via Bldg-sim wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> For the verification of a model to estimate wind driven rain (WDR) I
>> would like to use WDR data from different microclimates (rural,
>> (sub)urban). I have access to several data sets of free field or airfield
>> WDR measurements from different locations and the results from a
>> measurement campaign in Vancouver. To better evaluate the model I would
>> like to use measured data from one or more locations with different
>> microclimates, not being free field or airfield sites.
>>
>>
>>
>> My question is if someone knows if measurements are available of wind
>> driven rain in one or more microclimates?
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Roel Tersteeg MSc
>>
>>
>>
>> PhD-student
>>
>> Building Energy Research Group
>>
>> School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
>>
>> Loughborough University
>>
>> T: +44 77 56 10 90 54
>>
>> E: R.M.Tersteeg at lboro.ac.uk
>>
>>
>>
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