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Jiakang-<br>
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Besides NCDC data, I would suggest <a
href="http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml">NWS METAR data</a>.
It is updated hourly, however, I believe the oldest data readily
available is 24hrs. It has many of the weather variables needed for
hourly simulations, the biggest exception is solar data (only sky cover
and visibility are reported for most stations). However, you could
probably generate estimated solar data using one of the sky model
algorithms that have been developed; I don't believe the EnergyPlus
weather file program will yet generate solar data for you from sky
cover (please correct me if I am wrong). <br>
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A nifty program I recently found for automatically downloading this
data real-time is call METARs Downloader (I have no affiliation with
the vendor). I am quite satisfied with this software, although I
think there are others available or you could create your own. <br>
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On 3/7/2010 4:23 PM, Jiakang Lu wrote:
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<p>Hi all,<br>
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I need to verify the simulation results with empirical results in a
testbed. I have modeled the building in EnergyPlus, and now try to find
the weather information of that corresponding date. However, the latest
date of the real-time weather on EnergyPlus website is 12/09/2009. The
station ID of my site is KCHO. <br>
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Is there any way to find the latest weather data that can run with
EnergyPlus? Thank you very much. </p>
<p>Best,<br>
Jiakang</p>
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