[Bldg-sim] Simulation or historic weather files for Northern Pakistan

[Dru Crawley]

Arfa,

We looked into data availability and there are few hours of data (and no
nighttime data) for those locations. Please contact me by email -- there
are other options (no cost).

Dru


On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 2:36 PM Arfa Aijazi via Bldg-sim <
bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm working on a project to design affordable housing and temporary
> shelters for refugees and disaster recovery in Pakistan. One of our target
> areas is the remote northern areas of the country, called Hunza Valley.
> Some larger cities here include Gilgit and Skardu. The nearest weather
> files available from EnergyPlus are 200-300 miles away. The Hunza Valley
> region is mountainous, so given the influence of altitude and microclimate
> effects I'd like to at least find historical weather data  to validate
> simulation weather file selection.
>
> Let me know if you have any thoughts on where I can get weather data. It's
> a student project, so we don't have budget to purchase weather files from a
> commercial service.
>
> Best,
> Arfa
>
> *Arfa Aijazi*
> PhD Student, Building Science and Sustainability
> Center for the Built Environment <http://cbe.berkeley.edu/> | Architecture
> <https://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/architecture/> | UC Berkeley
> <http://www.berkeley.edu/>
> (m) 703-508-6535 | (e) arfa at berkeley.edu
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