[Bldg-sim] Fwd: NASA POWER Beta Testing: Feedback Request

[Jason Glazer]

NASA POWER can generate EPW files for a location in the 
Power Data Access Viewer.

I haven't used the data but I was not aware of this 
previously so I thought I would share, see below.

Jason



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Subject: 	NASA POWER Beta Testing: Feedback Request
Date: 	Mon, 1 Mar 2021 13:46:26 +0000
From: 	LaRC-POWER-Project <larc-power-project at mail.nasa.gov>



Subject: NASA POWER Beta Testing: Feedback Request

Dear NASA POWER user,

The Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) Project 
is transitioning to a new hosting environment and is 
requesting user feedback on the Web Services Beta. The Beta, 
which will eventually become POWER Web Services Portal 
Version 2, utilizes the new version of data including the 
latest NASA satellite analysis sources for surface fluxes 
(solar and thermal infrared). In addition, the following 
enhancements to data services have been implemented:

1.Single location, user specified time period, hourly data 
availability (including the .epw output data format)

2.Single location, user specified time series processing for 
various time averages using the newest input data

3.Single location, user specified time period, long-term 
variability and anomaly reports (including ASHRAE^® building 
climate zone indicators for climate monitoring)

4.Single location, user specified time period ASHRAE^® 
Climate Design Condition report

5.Single location, regional, and global user specified time 
period ASHRAE^® building climate zones processing 
(visualization capability in the NASA AGOL 
<https://nasa.maps.arcgis.com/home/group.html?id=4b75def515df430980faebca6a007465#overview>)

Users of the POWER Data Access Viewer (DAV) should 
experience no major impacts on usability during this 
migration process. For users of the custom POWER Application 
Programming Interface (API), there will be substantial 
improvements in the responsiveness, usability, and standard 
compliance of the API endpoints. This includes an updated 
path based Uniform Resource Locator (URL) system, enhanced 
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) query keywords, a streamed 
response of the requested data format (no longer requiring 
you to find the requested data format download link within 
the JSON response).

For more information on how to integrate the Version 2 of 
the POWER API Services Catalog, please navigate to the POWER 
Services Catalog Documentation 
<https://power.larc.nasa.gov/beta/docs/services/api/> link 
on the Beta site.

This migration is expected to be completed on 07/01/2021. 
Once migrated, the POWER Services Catalog Version 1 will be 
deactivated and only Version 2 will be supported going forward.

*Beta Site (Version 2):* https://power.larc.nasa.gov/beta/ 
<https://power.larc.nasa.gov/beta/>

Please explore, utilize, and provide feedback to the POWER 
Project Team <mailto:larc-power-project at mail.nasa.gov>. We 
appreciate your input on any bugs or data issues as well as 
improvements or additional tools needed.

For any questions regarding this transition, please reach 
out to POWER Project Team 
<mailto:larc-power-project at mail.nasa.gov>.

Sincerely,

The POWER Project Team

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