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announcement. The working link for information on ASHRAE IWEC2
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="90">Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A
Moraga CA 94556
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com">yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com</a>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com">http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com</a> for simulation-ready weather data
(o) (925)388-0265
(c) (510)928-2683
"building energy simulations at your fingertips"
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/12/2016 9:41 PM, Joe Huang
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>White Box Technologies (WBT) has
now made available 2016 weather files down through Oct 27
for 8,140 locations around the world (2110 US, 275 Canadian,
5755 international).</span><span><span><span> After the end
of year, these 2016 weather files will be updated at no
additonal cost.</span></span> Added to the weather files
previously generated going back to 2001, the WBT Weather web
site now contains 16-year time series of hourly weather for
6,500 locations, and shorter time series for another 3,500
locations, or over 130,000 weather files in all. WBT can
also create "typical year" weather files for any of these
locations, although one should check first whether there's
an existing TMY3/CN2014 for a US or Canadian location, or a
IWEC2 file for an international location. </span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span> Please go <a
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href="http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/ISH2016_USACan_locations.txt">here</a>
<span> </span>for a list of all 2016 files for US and Canada
or <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/ISH2016_Intern_locations.txt">here</a>
for a list of all 2016 files for international locations. To
search for a weather file on the WBT Weather web site,
please go <a moz-do-not-send="true">here</a> and use either
the "Search by List" or the "Search by Google Maps" options.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span> In addition to the regular update
of current year weather files, the following weather
products have been introduced over the past 14 months:</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span><span>1.<span> </span></span></span></i></b><b><i><span>MX2015</span></i></b><span>
is a set of "typical year" weather files for 119 Mexican
locations based on 16 years of historical weather from
2001-2015, with satellite-derived solar radiation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span><span>2.<span> </span></span></span></i></b><b><i><span>CN2014</span></i></b><span>
was introduced in Oct 2015 and contains "typical year"
weather files for 224 Canadian locations. They are based on
15 years of historical weather from 2000-2014, and thus 25
years more recent than the CWEC2, which used data ending in
1989. These will also be upgraded with satellite-derived
solar radiation in 2017.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span><span>3.<span> </span></span></span></i></b><b><i><span>ISHRAE2</span></i></b><span>
<span> </span>is a set of "typical year" weather files for
62 Indian locations. These weather files were developed by
WBT for ISHRAE in 2014 utilizing weather data from various
sources in India and the US. The ISHRAE2 files are free in
accordance to an agreement with the Indian government.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span><span>4.<span> </span></span></span></i></b><b><i><span>Custom
TYP</span></i></b><span> "typical year" weather files
for 117 locations not covered in other weather data sets.
These were done on demand for the past 5 years and <span> </span>generally
cover <span> </span>underserved regions of the world, such
as Latin America and Subsaharan Africa, and a few odd places
in the US. <span> </span>For a list of these TYP files,
please go <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/Custom_TYP_locations.txt">here</a>
.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>The following features and
products have been previously announced but repeated here
for new viewers:</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span><span>5.<span> </span></span></span></i></b><b><i><span>Of
special interest to eQUEST users</span></i></b><span>, a
feature was added in 2014 allowing users to create composite
weather file combining data from two consecutive years but
running from Jan. 1 of one year to Dec.31 of the preceding
year. This is very handy when doing simulations for a
project period that extends over two calendar years (see <a
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href="http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/creating_a_composite_year_wthrfile.pdf">this
memo</a> for details). </span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span><span>6.<span> </span></span></span></i></b><b><i><span>Of
special interest to EnergyPlus users</span></i></b><span>,
all WBT weather files are now provided with Design Day files
(*.DDY), either from the <i>2013 ASHRAE Handbook of
Fundamentals (HOF)</i>, or calculated from the historical
record of that weather station. This second method is
increasingly important, as the number of WBT weather
stations is now 40% larger than the <i>HOF</i>, and also
shows how design conditions can change over time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span><span>7.<span> </span></span></span></i></b><b><i><span>ASHRAE
IWEC2</span></i></b><span> (<b><i><span>I</span></i></b><i><span>nternational
Weather for Energy Calculations</span></i>) is a large
set of “typical year” weather files for 3,012 international
locations outside of the USA and Canada. <b><i><span>IWEC2
</span></i></b>weather files were developed in a 4-year
project utilizing actual reports from thousands of weather
stations around the world going back 25 years. <span> </span><b><i><span>IWEC2</span></i></b>
weather files can be purchased either for individual
locations, country<span> </span>and region sets, or even
the entire collection. For a complete list of all <b><i><span>IWEC2</span></i></b>
stations, see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/IWEC2_locations.txt">here</a>.<span>
For more information, please go</span></span><span><span><span><span>
<a moz-do-not-send="true">here</a></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><a
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href="http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com/ashraelocations.txt"><span></span></a>.
</span><b><i><span>IWEC2 </span></i></b>files will soon
also available from IES-VE and CYPE in early 2017.</span></span></p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="90">Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A
Moraga CA 94556
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com">yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com</a>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com">http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com</a> for simulation-ready weather data
(o) (925)388-0265
(c) (510)928-2683
"building energy simulations at your fingertips"
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