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Dear Sim List:<br>
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I'm attempting to calibrate an EnergyPlus / DesignBuilder model for
an existing building using actual weather data.<br>
<br>
I've downloaded data from the EnergyPlus website at:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/weatherdata_request_options.cfm">http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/weatherdata_request_options.cfm</a><br>
for the three weather stations in the Minneapolis / St Paul area for
2009 and 2010.<br>
<br>
When I examine this data, there are about 70 days of data missing
for 2009 and about 20 days of data missing for 2010. <br>
I have checked the option to "fill in missing time steps'; evidently
these gaps are each too wide to be bridged with estimated data.<br>
Even worse, the holes are virtually identical for all three weather
stations in the Twin Cities area so that I don't have the option of
creating a synthetic year from actual data from local stations.<br>
EnergyPlus Support suggest that the weather stations may have been
"taken down for maintenance". It seems to me that taking down all
the stations in a given area simultaneously is exactly what one
wouldn't want to do.<br>
<br>
Can anyone shed any light on this ? Any ideas for other sources of
hourly TMY2 or TMY3 data for this area ?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Dave<br>
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