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    ASHRAE has just released a set of   IWEC2 weather files for 3,012
    international locations.  These are for sale on a DVD through the
    ASHRAE Bookstore ($199 members, $229 non-members).  For details, see<br>
    <br>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=1823067">http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=1823067</a><br>
    <br>
    Included in this set are weather files for 1118 locations in Europe,
    864 in Asia, 173 in Oceania, 144 in South America, 65 in Central
    America, 192 in Africa, and even 7 in Antarctica.  I will post the
    list as soon as I get permission from the ASHRAE Bookstore to do so.<br>
    <br>
    ASHRAE is now also making plans to sell these weather files
    individually or subsets on the Web. <br>
    <br>
    Joe<br>
    (contractor for RP-1477)<br>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="90">Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 108D
Moraga CA 94556
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com">yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com">www.whiteboxtechnologies.com</a>
(o) (925)388-0265
(c) (510)928-2683
"building energy simulations at your fingertips"
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    On 3/7/2012 3:18 PM, Patrick Keeney wrote:
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      <div>Yes! Thank you all for the help.  The deleting of .ini file
        initially tripped me up, but eventually got it right. </div>
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      <div>I will keep <a moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="http://weatheranalytics.com">weatheranalytics.com</a> in
        mind if we ever need any weather files we can't find.  Does  <a
          moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://weatheranalytics.com">weatheranalytics.com</a>
        have a lot of the international weather files that are sometimes
        harder to come by?</div>
      <div><br>
        <br>
         </div>
      <div>On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Nick Caton <span><<a
            moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ncaton@smithboucher.com">ncaton@smithboucher.com</a>></span>
        wrote:<br>
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              <p><span>Figure I’d throw in my two cents: </span></p>
              <p><span>   </span></p>
              <p><span>Weatheranalytics.com is something I’ve also grown
                  comfortable recommending when you need actual data for
                  a specific location and a specific period.  Great for
                  calibration, meaningful daylight savings studies,
                  etc…  The system they’ve put together is really pretty
                  amazing for what it accomplishes, interpolating
                  weather data for any point on the globe between
                  available weatherstations/resources.  Their
                  telephone/email response time has always been very
                  prompt and helpful in my experience and is a big
                  reason I continue to utilize this service.  In cases
                  where the weather data produced seems awry, I found
                  this these guys super-eager to help review, educate me
                  as necessary, and otherwise make things right without
                  charging any extra fees or turning unresponsive. </span></p>
              <p><span>   </span></p>
              <p><span>I have zero affiliations with this service, by
                  the way.  Just relating my positive experiences. </span></p>
              <p><span>   </span></p>
              <p><span>For their fee, they generate a zip file that
                  includes the requested weather data in a series of
                  formats (bin,csv,epw,tm2,tm3), alongside a small text
                  file serving as a reference for the header
                  nomenclature.  The .bin file provided should be
                  DOE2/eQuest compatible, but I have and continue to
                  convert the .epw file they provide into a .bin.   </span></p>
              <p><span>   </span></p>
              <p><span>I regularly convert the .epw using the free
                  eQ_WthProc software, found here: 
                  <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://doe2.com/index_Wth.html">http://doe2.com/index_Wth.html</a>. 
                  The reason I pursue this extra effort is this process
                  has the benefit of producing some easily navigable and
                  well-formatted visual graphs of the data’s
                  DB/WB/Windspeed/Solar (Direct & Horz) over the
                  year, making it a breeze to check whether anything is
                  awry.  These animated/interactive visuals (play with
                  the zooming features!) double as effective
                  marketing/report/communicative material for whenever I
                  need to reference the actual weather to explain a
                  result/behavior. </span></p>
              <p><span>   </span></p>
              <p><span>If you are interested in trying eQ_WthProc, make
                  a point to read what the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://doe2.com">doe2.com</a> webpage says
                  carefully regarding the “.ini reset” procedure – the
                  program as it is currently available requires you do
                  take this extra step to get it installed and working
                  correctly. </span></p>
              <p><span>   </span></p>
              <p><span>Of course, I will use freely available .bin TMY
                  data wherever I can get it and it’s appropriate for
                  the model =).  Hope this helps! </span></p>
              <p><span>   </span></p>
              <p><span>~Nick </span></p>
              <p><span>   </span></p>
              <p><span>   </span></p>
              <p><span><img moz-do-not-send="true"
                    alt="cid:489575314@22072009-0ABB"></span><b><span> </span></b></p>
              <p><b><span>   </span></b></p>
              <p><b><span>NICK CATON, P.E.</span></b><b><span> </span></b></p>
              <p><span>SENIOR ENGINEER </span></p>
              <p><span>   </span></p>
              <p><span>Smith & Boucher Engineers</span><span> </span></p>
              <p><span>25501 west valley parkway, suite 200 </span></p>
              <p><span>olathe, ks 66061 </span></p>
              <p><span>direct <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="tel:913.344.0036">913.344.0036</a> </span></p>
              <p><span>fax <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="tel:913.345.0617">913.345.0617</a> </span></p>
              <p><span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    title="blocked::www.smithboucher.com"
                    href="http://www.smithboucher.com"><span>www.smithboucher.com</span></a></span>
                <span>
                </span> <span> </span></p>
              <p><span>   </span></p>
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                <p><b><span>From:</span></b><span> <a
                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org">bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>
                    [mailto:<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org">bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>]
                    <b>On Behalf Of </b>Patrick Keeney<br>
                    <b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 07, 2012 2:53 PM<br>
                    <b>To:</b> Joe Huang<br>
                    <b>Cc:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
                    <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bldg-sim] bin weather file </span></p>
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                  <p>   </p>
                  <div>
                    <p>Thank you Joe and Andrew, </p>
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                    <p>  </p>
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                  <div>
                    <p>I've got it working.  Thanks again. </p>
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                    <p>On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Joe Huang <<a
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com">yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com</a>>
                      wrote: </p>
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                      <p>*.bin is the file format used by DOE-2.1E and
                        DOE-2.2, which is the underlying simulation
                        engine for eQUEST.<br>
                        It's a surprisingly small binary file of only
                        148K, because the data have been "packed", i.e.,
                        the numbers have been combined numerically to be
                        "unpacked" when read by DOE-2. This was done to
                        minimize computer storage which was a
                        consideration when DOE-2 was first designed in
                        the early 80's.  The downsides to these packed
                        files are: (1) some loss of precision, and (2)
                        you need special programs to convert the files
                        into something humanly readable. Perhaps none of
                        this is relevant to most users, who just need a
                        *.bin weather file for their specific location
                        and have no interest in looking at the weather
                        data itself, but I throw out these two sentences
                        just to explain what they are.<br>
                        <br>
                        There is no recognizable depository of *.bin
                        files, but there are plenty of them floating
                        around in various places. For example, the
                        eQUEST web site (
                        <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="http://www.doe2.com/index_Wth.html">www.doe2.com/index_Wth.html</a>
                        ) has a number of standard weather data sets,
                        almost entirely for the US, California, and
                        Canada.   I've also got NREL's new TMY3 weather
                        files in *.bin format for 1020 US locations on
                        my company website (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/weather_data.html">www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/weather_data.html</a>
                        ).
                        <br>
                        The eQUEST web site also has a utility program
                        (eQ_WthProc) that allows users to convert EPW
                        files to bin files.<br>
                        <br>
                        If you don't find a *.bin file meeting your
                        needs from the above, it's also possible to
                        create a *.bin file from raw weather data. 
                        <caution - advertising follows :-) >   I
                        have been offering a service to create weather
                        files in *.bin (or other commonly used formats)
                        for any location available in the National
                        Climatic Data Center's (NCDC) massive Integrated
                        Surface Hourly (ISH) archive that contains
                        historical weather records for around 8,000
                        international locations (1,500 in the US, 600 in
                        Canada) going back to 1980.  Those interested
                        can e-mail for details.<br>
                        <br>
                        Joe<br>
                        <br>
                        <br>
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                      <pre>Joe Huang    </pre>
                      <pre>White Box Technologies, Inc.    </pre>
                      <pre>346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 108D    </pre>
                      <pre>Moraga CA 94556    </pre>
                      <pre><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com">yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com</a>    </pre>
                      <pre><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com">www.whiteboxtechnologies.com</a>    </pre>
                      <pre>(o) <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:%28925%29388-0265">(925)388-0265</a>    </pre>
                      <pre>(c) <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:%28510%29928-2683">(510)928-2683</a>    </pre>
                      <pre>"building energy simulations at your fingertips"    </pre>
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                            On 3/7/2012 11:01 AM, Patrick Keeney wrote:
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                              <p>Hey All, </p>
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                              <p>Quick question....how do I get a .bin
                                weather file.  I'm not familiar with
                                this file type.  </p>
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                              <p>  </p>
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                              <p>I've tried converting to a .bin in the
                                Ecotect "Convert Weather Data" tab, but
                                it won't switch whatever file you have
                                to a .bin. </p>
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                              <p>Any help would be great.  Thanks.<br>
                                <br>
                                -- <br>
                                Patrick J Keeney<br>
                                MArch-MSSD Candidate<br>
                                <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                  href="tel:410-299-5627">410-299-5627</a>
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                    Patrick J Keeney<br>
                    MArch-MSSD Candidate<br>
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      Patrick J Keeney<br>
      MArch-MSSD Candidate<br>
      410-299-5627<br>
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