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    Thanks Dru,<br>
    It's actually minimum wind speed occurrences that I'm interested in
    - when we aren't generating from the wind turbine. Perhaps the best
    solution is just get to grips with the E+ WTG model and use hourly
    data.<br>
    Best <br>
    Chris<br>
    <br>
    On 15/03/2012 11:39, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Dru.Crawley@bentley.com">Dru.Crawley@bentley.com</a> wrote:
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
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            73, 125);">The design conditions in the ASHRAE Handbook
            (which CIBSE uses some of) includes Extreme Annual Wind
            Speed of 1%, 2.5%, and 5%.  Have a specific location in
            mind? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                windowtext;"> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org">bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>
                [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org">mailto:bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>]
                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Yates<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:24 AM<br>
                <b>Cc:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bldg-sim] working out the 95
                percentile of wind speed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Dear All,<br>
          <br>
          Thank you very much. This is all useful stuff. I guess binning
          isn't in the engineering culture over here in the UK in the
          same way it is in the UK. We tend merely to use hourly weather
          data to do simulations and can take design data from CIBSE
          (most of the time).<br>
          <br>
          I'll definitely undertake these exercises. In the mean time, I
          wrote some very crude vba to step through the weather data and
          calculate its effect on battery charge which I'll be happy to
          share once I've tidied it up a bit.<br>
          <br>
          Cheers<br>
          <br>
          Chris<br>
          <br>
          On 15/03/2012 02:36, Joe Huang wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Can't you just sort the data and then look
          at the values corresponding to the percentiles of interest,
          i.e.,
          <br>
          8322 for 95% percentile of 8760 hourly data?   Am I missing
          something here ?  The only wrinkle in respect to wind speeds
          is that the hourly values are spot measurements, and not
          time-averaged over the hour.
          <br>
          <br>
          Joe <br>
          <br>
          Joe Huang <br>
          White Box Technologies, Inc. <br>
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          On 3/14/2012 9:09 AM, Chris Yates wrote: <br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Dear bldg-sim'rs, <br>
          <br>
          I usually take this kind of data for granted (our industry has
          been commoditized so much!).
          <br>
          <br>
          Statistics not being my strong point, does anybody know of any
          good web resources for working out percentile data of various
          weather characteristics? I have hourly data available and
          would like to undertake the task in excel (or openoffice).
          <br>
          <br>
          Thanks <br>
          -- <br>
          <br>
          Chris Yates C Eng MCIBSE <br>
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