<div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Real-Time Weather Converter tool for creating Actual
Meteorological Year (AMY) files for North Europe have been updated. </p>
<div><br></div><div>News for version 2.1:</div><ul><li>Solar radiation data can now be retrieved from an
arbitrary coordination point covered by the STRÅNG modeling system. These data can
for example be used for creating customized weather files by combing them with site-specific
measurements of temperature and humidity and wind and atmospheric pressure data
from the nearest official weather station.</li></ul>
<div>News for version 2.0:</div><ul><li>All data from ISD is available, also data marked
as "Additional". If you tried the tool before but didn't get any data
for your station, you should now be able to get usable data for most locations.</li><li>A new server that maps data from the SMHI
server. Now retrieval time is just a few seconds for one year of solar radiation
data. AMY-files can now be created in under a minute. </li><li>Missing data points are visualized graphically.</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">The tool was made as part of my MSc degree project at
Mälardalens University, Sweden. It uses observed actual weather data from the
Integrated Surface Database (ISD), <a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/isd">http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/isd</a>, and
modeled solar radiation data from STRÅNG, <a href="http://strang.smhi.se">http://strang.smhi.se</a>. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<div>Roughly, the tool covers most of Europe excluding south
Europe. Long-term coverage is from 1 of January 1999 to up to date for the
northernmost area, the southern area is covered from 1 of June 2006 (see
website for map).</div><div><br></div>
<p class="MsoNormal">The quality of the solar radiation data from STRÅNG varies
in the geographical dimension. Roughly the model gives good result for Sweden
and Central Europe, but underestimates for ocean coast near areas like UK,
Norway etc. The model does underestimate as well for the Baltics, northern Finland
and some high altitude sites. There's a validation figure (for Google Earth) at
the tools homepage in the help section.</p><div>Best regards, </div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lukas Lundström</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/weatherconverter">https://sites.google.com/site/weatherconverter</a></p><div><br></div>